Joachim Baxla was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha

14th Lok Sabha

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 of India

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. He represented the Alipurduars

Alipurduars (Lok Sabha constituency)

Alipurduars Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Alipurduar in West Bengal. The seat is reserved for scheduled tribes.-Assembly segments:...

 constituency of West Bengal

West Bengal

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 and was a member of the Revolutionary Socialist Party

Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)

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 (RSP) political party. He won the Alipurduars seat four times in a row. Baxla was denied a ticket by RSP to contest for the 15th Lok Sabha. In protest, he resigned from the RSP and contested from the Alipurduar constituency as an independent and lost badly.RSP candidate Manohar Tirkey

Manohar Tirkey

Manohar Tirkey is a member of the 15th Lok Sabha. He was elected on a Revolutionary Socialist Party ticket from Alipurduars ....

 won the seat. He was relegated to the fourth position.Then he joined the Trinamool Congress and contested the 2011 West Bengal Assembly election under its flag from the Kumargram (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Kumargram (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Kumargarm is an assembly constituency in Jalpaiguri district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The seat is reserved for scheduled tribes.-Extent:As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No...

. He again lost the election to his RSP rival Dasrath Tirkey.