Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha

Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha
Rājya Sabhā ke Sadana Netā
State Emblem of India
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Incumbent Piyush Goyal since 14 July 2021
Rajya Sabha
Status	Party Leader
Member of	Rajya Sabha
Reports to	Parliament of India
Residence	8, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi, Delhi, India[1]
Formation	May 1952
First holder	N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar (1952–1953)
Deputy	Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

The Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha (IAST: Rājya Sabhā ke Sadana Netā) is the leader and parliamentary chairperson of the majority party in the Rajya Sabha and is normally either a cabinet minister or another nominated minister. The Leader of the House is responsible for organizing government meetings and business in the House. This office is not enshrined in the constitution and provided under the Rules of Rajya Sabha.

List of Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha[]

The following individuals have held the office of the Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha:^[2]

No.	Portrait	Name	Tenure			Party
1		N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar	May 1952	February 1953		Indian National Congress
2		Charu Chandra Biswas	February 1953	November 1954
3		Lal Bahadur Shastri	November 1954	March 1955
4		Govind Ballabh Pant	March 1955	February 1961
5		Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim	February 1961	August 1963
6		Yashwantrao Chavan	August 1963	December 1963
7		Jaisukhlal Hathi	February 1964	March 1964
8		M. C. Chagla	March 1964	November 1967
(7)		Jaisukhlal Hathi	November 1967	November 1969
9		Kodardas Kalidas Shah	November 1969	May 1971
10		Uma Shankar Dikshit	May 1971	December 1975
11		Kamalapati Tripathi	December 1975	March 1977
12		L. K. Advani	March 1977	August 1979		Janata Party
13		K. C. Pant	August 1979	January 1980		Indian National Congress
14		Pranab Mukherjee	January 1980	July 1981
			August 1981	December 1984
15		Vishwanath Pratap Singh	December 1984	April 1987
16		N. D. Tiwari	April 1987	June 1988
17		P. Shiv Shankar	July 1988	December 1989
18		M. S. Gurupadaswamy	December 1989	November 1990		Janata Dal
19		Yashwant Sinha	December 1990	June 1991
20		Shankarrao Chavan	July 1991	April 1996		Indian National Congress
21		Sikander Bakht	20 May 1996	31 May 1996		Bharatiya Janata Party
22		Inder Kumar Gujral	June 1996	November 1996		Janata Dal
23		H. D. Deve Gowda	November 1996	April 1997
(22)		Inder Kumar Gujral	April 1997	March 1998
(21)		Sikander Bakht	19 March 1998	13 October 1999	1 year, 208 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
24		Jaswant Singh	13 October 1999	22 May 2004	4 years, 222 days
25		Manmohan Singh	1 June 2004	18 May 2009		Indian National Congress
			29 May 2009	26 May 2014
26		Arun Jaitley	26 May 2014	11 June 2019	5 years, 16 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
27[3]		Thawar Chand Gehlot	11 June 2019	7 July 2021	2 years, 26 days
28[4]		Piyush Goyal	14 July 2021	Incumbent	163 days

List of Deputy Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha[]

The following individuals have held the office of the Deputy Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha

• Piyush Vedprakash Goyal

12 June 2019 – 13 July 2021

• Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

19 July 2021– Incumbent

See also[]

• Vice President of India (Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha)
• Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha
• Leader of the House in Lok Sabha
• Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha
• Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha

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