Getting Ready for the Final Phase of Local Elections
Posted On June 17, 2011
By S. Chandrasekharan
After many hiccups, the final phase of local elections for the posts of Gups, Mangmis, Tshogpas, Thromde thremis and thromde tshogpas will be taking place on 27 June 2011. There had been considerable delay in holding the elections and it looks that there will be no further postponement.
The delay was due to many reasons. Firstly, it took some time to make the necessary laws for the elections. Then there was the problem of delimiting the constituencies, and finally in what appeared to be a trivial one proved to be the most intractable and the King had to intervene.