Dasrath Tirkey Explained

Dasrath Tirkey
Birth Date:1967 2, df=yes
Constituency1:Alipurduars
Term Start1:2014
Term End1:2019
Predecessor1:Manohar Tirkey
Successor1:John Barla
Signature:Dasrath Tirkey signature.png

Dasrath Tirkey was a member of the All India Trinamool Congress and won the 2014 Indian general elections from the Alipurduars (Lok Sabha constituency). In 2019, he lost the election.[1]

Three Left Front MLAs, Dasarath Tirkey and Ananta Deb Adhikari of RSP(I) and Sunil Mandal of All India Forward Bloc joined TMC in February 2014.[2] He joined Bhartiya Janata Party in 2020.

While in RSP, Dasrath Tirkey was MLA for three consecutive terms in 2001, 2006 and 2011 elections, from Kumargram assembly seat.[3] [4] [5] He was elected M.P. before he completed his last term as MLA.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Constituencywise-All Candidates . Eciresults.nic.in . 2014-05-17 . 17 May 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140517182453/http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS252.htm?ac=2 . dead .
  2. Web site: Twin defections, but different outcomes. The Times of India, 9 February 2014 . 23 June 2014.
  3. Web site: General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal . Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission . 18 June 2014.
  4. Web site: General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal . Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission . 18 June 2014.
  5. Web site: General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal . Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission . 18 June 2014.