Career
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. While in RSP, Dasrath Tirkey was Modern Language Association for three consecutive terms in 2001, 2006 and 2011 elections, from Kumargram assembly seat. He was elected Member of Parliament before he completed his last term as Modern Language Association.