Dasrath Tirkey

{{Short description|Indian politician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}}

{{Use Indian English|date=December 2015}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1967|2|9}}

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| office1 =Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha

| constituency1 = Alipurduars

| term_start1 = 2014

| term_end1 = 2019

| predecessor1 = Manohar Tirkey

| successor1 = John Barla

| party = Bharatiya Janata Party {{small|(2020–present)}}

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• Trinamool Congress {{small|(2014–2019)}}
• Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) {{small|(till 2014)}}

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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.{{cite web |url=http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS252.htm?ac=2 |title=Constituencywise-All Candidates |publisher=Eciresults.nic.in |access-date=2014-05-17 |archive-date=17 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517182453/http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS252.htm?ac=2 |url-status=dead }}

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.{{cite web| url = http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Twin-defections-but-different-outcomes/articleshow/30076338.cms|title = Twin defections, but different outcomes| publisher = The Times of India, 9 February 2014 |access-date = 23 June 2014}} 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.{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2001/StatRept_WB_2001.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 18 June 2014}}{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2006/StatReport_WB_2006.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 18 June 2014}}{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2011/stat_WB_May2011.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 18 June 2014}} He was elected M.P. before he completed his last term as MLA.