Dasrath Tirkey

Dasrath Tirkey
Member of the Indian Parliament for Alipurduars
Incumbent
Assumed office 2014
Preceded by	Manohar Tirkey
Personal details
Born	9 February 1967
Political party	Trinamool Congress (2014- Incumbent) Revolutionary Socialist Party (till 2014)
Religion	Hindu

Dasrath Tirkey is a member of the All India Trinamool Congress and has won the Indian general elections, 2014 from the Alipurduars (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Three Left Front MLAs, Dasarath Tirkey and Ananta Deb Adhikari of RSP and Sunil Mandal of Forward Bloc joined All India Trinamool Congress in February 2014.^[2]

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.

References

1. "Constituencywise-All Candidates". Eciresults.nic.in. Retrieved 2014-05-17.
2. "Twin defections, but different outcomes". The Times of India, 9 February 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
3. "General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
4. "General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
5. "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.