Joachim Baxla (16 January 1955 – 6 March 2017) was a member of the

14th Lok Sabha The 14th Lok Sabha (17 May 2004 – 18 May 2009) was convened after the 2004 Indian general election held in four phases during 20 April – 10 May 2004, which led to the formation of first Manmohan Singh ministry (2004–2009). Indian Nation ...

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. He represented the Alipurduars constituency of

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

Manohar Tirkey Manohar Tirkey (born 20 November 1953) is an Indian politician and a member of the 15th Lok Sabha. He was elected on a Revolutionary Socialist Party (India), Revolutionary Socialist Party ticket from Alipurduars (Lok Sabha constituency). The ...

won the seat. He was relegated to the fourth position. He then joined the Trinamool Congress contesting the 2011 West Bengal Assembly election from the Kumargram (Vidhan Sabha constituency), and again lost the election to his RSP rival Dasrath Tirkey. Baxla died from cancer on 6 March 2017.

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Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
1955 births 2017 deaths Lok Sabha members from West Bengal People from Jalpaiguri district Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) politicians India MPs 1996–1997 India MPs 1998–1999 India MPs 1999–2004 India MPs 2004–2009 People from Alipurduar district Trinamool Congress politicians from West Bengal {{WestBengal-politician-stub