composition of rajya sabha
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Composition Of Rajya Sabha
✱ The rajya sabha consists of 25 members. Out of these 238 members were representatives of states and union territories and the remaining 12 the nominated by the president from amongst the distinguished persons in the field of literature, science,art and social service.
✱ The nominated members do not participate in the election of the president of India.
✱ Members of the rajya sabha are elected by the elected members of legislative assemblies of states in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of The single transferable vote system
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Article 80 of the Constitution deals with composition of the Council of States. Clause 1 of this article provides that the maximum strength of the Rajya Sabha is 250 out of which 12 members are nominated by the President and 238 are representatives of the States and of the Union territories.
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