[3] He stood as the CPI candidate in the 1963 by-election for the Cooch Behar parliamentary seat, finishing in fourth place with 17,760 votes (7.83%).
[5] Dakua lost the Mathabhanga seat in the 1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, finishing in second place with 22,478 votes (48.52%).
[9][16] In the Fifth Left Front government, formed after the 1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election Dakua's post was changed to Minister-in-Charge of the Department S.C., S.T.
[17] Dakua was named as the Minister of Tourism in the Sixth Left Front government, formed after the 2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.
[12] The move reportedly caused dissent in the party in the area, with the Dakua camp arguing that Roy was an outsider living in the Cooch Behar assembly constituency.
Dakua and Burman argued that additional funds should have been assigned to the underdeveloped districts, and that the "poverty and backwardness of the locals had been prompting them to indulge in various criminal activities".