The Constitution created the Rajya Sabha to represent the States. Membership was mostly according to the population of each State. Only a resident of the state could be elected by the State Legislature to the Rajya Sabha. Unfortunately, this situation has been totally changed .
2. Dr Manmohan Singh could not be elected to the Lok Sabha but he was to become the Prime Minister as nominee of Her Majesty Sonia Gandhi. A fraud was resorted to. Manmohan Singh hired/purchased a residential house/ flat in Guwahati and got himself enrolled in the electoral register of Guwahati. Thereby, he qualified to be a member of the Rajya Sabha from Assam. This fraudulent device was thereafter adopted by many parties including the Bharatiya Janata Party. This fraud became so widespread that the rule that only an elector from a state can be a member of the Rajya Sabha to represent that state has been removed.
3. Now there is a free run to the Rajya Sabha. The beneficiaries included persons like Sri Venkaiah Naidu, Smt.Nirmala Sitaraman, Dr. Subramanian Swamy, and many others. It has now become a place for accommodating defeated or unelected politicians and regrettably, millionaires and business men. For eg: in AP a Reliance Industries functionary was given a ticket to the Rajya Sabha. The latest is the YSRCP of Andhra Pradesh is sending two people from Telangana to the Rajya Sabha . These are R Krishnaiah of Telangana the permanent face of the BC reservation movement and S. Niranjan Reddy, a lawyer from Nirmal in Telangana. Obviously they will not represent the interests of AP but for certain considerations not yet disclosed these two are being sent from AP to the Rajya Sabha. So now Rajya Sabha is full of either rejected or defeated politicians or money bags or some of the benefactors for the ruling party in the states. BJP has no strength in Kerala, Tamilnadu and Andhra Pradesh but it has a Keralite and Tamilian elected to the Rajya Sabha from BJP ruled states and they are ministers in the Central Cabinet. Similarly one person from AP elected from some other statem (UP) is a BJP member in the Rajya Sabha. So, it is not Rajya Sabha any longer. It is any body’s Sabha so converted to serve party and personal interests.
Rajya Sabha is no longer the House of the States
