Joachim Baxla: Difference between revisions

'''Joachim Baxla''' (16 January 1955 – 6 March 2017) was a member of the [[14th Lok Sabha]] of [[India]]. He represented the [[Alipurduars (Lok Sabha constituency)|Alipurduars]] constituency of [[West Bengal]] and was a member of the [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|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]] 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.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/politics/rsp-mp-in-west-bengal-quits-party-after-being-denied-ticket_100169171.html | title = RSP MP in West Bengal quits party after being denied ticket| access-date = 2010-10-04 | publisher = Thaindian news}}</ref> Baxla died on 6 March 2017 after a battle with cancer.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/4-time-mp-passes-away/1/898273.html|title=4-time MP passes away|date=6 March 2017|work=India Today|access-date=2017-03-06}}</ref>