How capable are Bhutanese MPs
The best reason to be politician is having special speaking capabilities. And lack of fear in taking up any issues that needs to be debated at national levels whether they are affecting or benefiting people. As I crawled through how Bhutanese politicians are doing and saying, I found it...
Local elections day announced
Election Commission of Bhutan has announced the date for second phase election to local government. The elections will be held on May 24. The election will complete the process of electing people’s representatives through adult franchise. On the day, elections will be held for block councils of the 205...
Two sides of the Bhutanese judiciary
The Bhutanese judiciary came into limelight with two cases that indicates the future course of justice delivery in the country. In one case, the judiciary received appreciation while from other it received such a nasty criticism that appreciation received in first case faded away. The verdict given on the...
Rhythms of Democracy
Bhutan’s democratisation process gets further strengthened this month, at least for public consumption, when the country holds the first election to elect people’s representatives to local bodies. The first elected government of Jigme Thinley, on assuming office in early 2008, had promised to hold the local elections by the...
Cock fight: two AGs fight in a consitutional case
The attorney general of the country recently made a statement that interested me. It was as part of the first constitutional case being registered in the country by the opposition party. AG Phuntsho Wangdi, a LLM from University of Adelaide, said the opposition MP Damchoe Dorji cannot represent his...
Don’t be frog of a pond.
Very recently, Gopilal Acharya sent me a invitation to see and submit Bhutanese blogs for a new site that probably be created by himself bhutanblogs.com. It was an interesting initiative to access the real strength of current Bhutanese generation on telling their personal experiences to the world. The most...