Constituency Alipurduars Role Political figure Name Joachim Baxla | Children 1 son and 1 daughter Spouse(s) Maloti Baxla Residence Jalpaiguri | |
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Born 16 January 1955 (age 69)
Jalpaiguri, West Bengal ( 1955-01-16 ) Political party Revolutionary Socialist Party, All India Trinamool Congress | ||
Joachim Baxla (16 January 1955 – 6 March 2017) was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Alipurduars constituency of West Bengal 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 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 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) . He again lost the election to his RSP rival Dasrath Tirkey. Baxla died on 6 March 2017 after a battle with cancer.