Joachim Baxla
Joachim Baxla 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 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. He then joined the Trinamool Congress contesting the 2011 West Bengal Assembly election from the Kumargram, and again lost the election to his RSP rival Dasrath Tirkey. Baxla died on 6 March 2017 after a battle with cancer.
