Manmohan retires from Rajya Sabha as Congress loses seats in Assam house

He would now need to wait for the DMK, an ally of the Congress, to send him to the Rajya Sabha next month or until the next biennial elections in the Upper House in April 2020 when 54 MPs retire

On Friday evening, for the first time in 28 years, former prime minister (PM) Manmohan Singh’s name ceased to be part of the list of members of the Rajya Sabha on its website, and was included in the list of former members of Parliament (MPs).

With the Congress lacking the numbers in the Assam legislature to ensure his re-election, 86-year-old Singh retired from the Rajya Sabha on Friday.

Singh, then finance minister in the P V Narasimha Rao government, had debuted in the House on October 1, 1991, from Assam and represented the state for five consecutive terms. Singh was the leader