Diplomats’ crowd in Thimphu
The Bhutanese media remain silent, or remain unknown, but diplomats from 16 countries, mostly based in New Delhi and Dhaka visited Bhutan in last week of May. Diplomats from Lithuania, Ethiopia, Albanian and Dominican Republic, all based in New Delhi, met with Prime Minister Jigmi Thinley in Thimphu on...
Women in politics
If it comes as proposed, Bhutan will move one step forward in tightening gender disparity in national politics. This could be the result of series of sensitisation workshops carried out in Thimphu recently and the growing women influences in regional politics. Two emerging parties in the country are proposing...
LG election post mortem
Road through democratisation is not smooth as the rulers in Bhutan had predicted. When this best governance model was projected in semi-demon form three years back, royalists took enough opportunities to publicise that democracy was the gift from palace despite public refusal. Characteristically, had that been the circumstances, post...
Flaw in LG gewog distribution
Druk National Congress has raised a genuine concern over the delimitation of the districts for the local government election. There hasn’t been fair distribution of local representations in the district’s local government. In wake of LG election, the local government will be endowed with substantial funds for the development...
LG elections postponed
The election commission of Bhutan has postponed the election of the local government Schedule for May 21 following a direction issued by King. King Jigme Khesar issued order to postpone the election after several LG elections aspirants complained about commission’s decision not to allow them contest the elections saying...