A new political party is in the offing to contest the general election of 2013. The Social Democratic Party, constituted mostly of former PDP members and the civil servants now serving the government, believes in the social democratic principles as its ideology. Dr Tandin Dorji a member of core group is the main architect of the new party.
The party said it will encourage capitalism or privatization, while looking at the welfare of rural mass in terms of providing the social services. Privatization of health care is a likely agenda for the SDP.
Although, not expecting to form the next elected government, SDP is looking forward to take the opposition that will be much stronger than the two member opposition of today.
It will be a choice for the people who are looking for an alternative, said Tandin Dorji a former PDP member from Punakha.
“It is difficult for the new party to go to the public as there are election and civil service rules which restrict us from going open to the public. Everything had to be done secretly.”
It is not necessary to have Tshogpa, the village representative, according to Tandin. The DPT and PDP have paid Tshogpas and offices in the village level, which led them to be in huge debt, he argued.
The party believes in cultivating a new generation of leaders for bhutan. “We have seen the same old breed of ministers nothing much is done to mentor the new generation leaders,” opined Dr Tandin.
The party is said to be charting out the strategies to run sustainably even without the state funding.
Cool! I wonder how is Dr. Tandin related to the royal family? In this, so called the “Last Shangrila”, someone who is not related to king won’t dare to form a party. All the best dear civil servants! Serve your country and the people with faith and sincerity. Save this country before it is being devoured by some monsters.
~ Ram~
First of all I must say that, every one is related to each other in this world,particularly in the small society like ours. and this is a true identity being a Bhutanese.We bhutanese do not divide community like BAHUN,CHETTRI DID IN the name of religion caste and creed.
By the way who told you that Dr. Tandin is related to royal ? In fact he is a son of villager with humble family back ground.
Bhutan is the world’s most undeveloped and backward country in the world. It’s funny that even in the 21st centuary there is endangered species of autocratic king hiding in the wild which will extinct soon! The blame for poor Bhutanese being the frog of a pond when the real men grown in democratic freedom have moved from moon to mars goes to that wilderly kingship of Bhutan who always supressed its citizens for their vested interest, luxury, name and fame with the help of gun and thumb rule.I have no hope no matter which party comes, Bhutan and Bhutanese are always the same, no true democracy will prevail in Bhutan, particularly supression for Southern Bhutanese wont go away:((( So lets continue to advocate by us the exiled Bhutanese because we are now everywhere in the western countries from where 1 big voice is more effective than 100s of fake democracies n election efforts in the poor Bhutan with innocent wild Bhutanese engulfed by autocratic king in the name of safeguarding the nation. The current democracy in Bhutan is also due to exiled Bhutanese as a consequence of revealing to the world what was/is going on in Bhutan which forced Bhutan to atleast do something to show to the world and exist as a nation.Lets not stop our mission, advocacy and demonstrations in Jeneva,USA,Australia, Canada, Norway, Netharlands, UK,NZ, Germany as we r in the world’s leading countries. Our 1 demonstration here will be 100 times powerful to change Bhutan than 1000 efforts in Bhutan!!
In the land of youngest democracy, in the land of “gross national happiness”, and in the land of last Sangri-La on earth “Everything had to be done secretly.” So, this is how the value of democracy is flourishing in Bhutan.
I hope Dr. Tandin Dorji and the people around him aspiring for true, vibrant and inclusive democracy in Bhutan will overcome from all such hurdles and able to form a new political party, which will have faith and trust on the sovereignty of the people of Bhutan and not on the palace, so that Bhutan will have a democracy for the people, of the people and by the people.
Good luck Dr. Tandin, keep your morale high and don’t scare.
Narad Adhikari
General Secretary
Druk National Congress (Democratic)
i feel its good with tandin doing. should supplement one of the existing two.wait and watch— we can see bhutan with democracy from the people, not from the palace.
i see this very p[ositively.first thing, pluralistic society we need in bhutan. to happen this,awareness and education work, and are working too.
look dzongkha music vedios made in bhutan. don’t you see kiras of women becomming thiner even in freezing teperature. viewers should see mode’ls upper front view clearly. gho lowering douwn , muscles openly desplayed.freedommmmm.
lasho la
Hi Bhalay,
Shame on we all Bhutanese refugee leaders.Almost 20 years passed but we failed to go forward to win the heart of internarional community to fight against Royal Government and help our innocent people living in the camps in Nepal.
The poor remained poor and rich and clever becoming richer every day in the name of Bhutanese refugees.
Now stop this bullshit talk.This third country settlement is a help from international community for genuine Bhutanese to live peacefully inside Bhutan by sending away problem creators far from Peace loving Bhutanese.
For your kind information..Dr.Tandin is product of Nanglon Father & Nepali mother
Hi Bardewa,
Both of your comments don’t make any sense. Have yourself gone well through the article/preceeding comments to avert yourself from proving stupid.
I would appreciate if you could bring out something more to verify Dr. Dorji’s background.
Thanks,
Suraj.
Bardewa, is another paid agent of JSW. Guys, be aware with these types of craps!
These type of crazy people always make our mission fail. Ignore them, if not dump them.
Dear Binamra jew,
Yes womens kira becoming thiner, gho going down in Bhutan,yes you have rightly pointed out the facts,I support you.
I hope you are not living in the refugee camps with unfortunate fellow citizens.In the camp women wearinmg small halfpant, showing their NITO,drugs becoming important supplement for food for youths and poor and innocents have became victim of circumtances and rich and clever people doing well and leaving for foreign countries.
We all must wakeup and help these unfortunate people being left behind by our leaders.They become use and throw items.
Thunder ji,
Namaste.. jai bhutan..jai nepal..jai japa. It is unfair to blame me,the failure of our mission is not by people like you and me..but style of leadership we have.
We tries to make small thing a big issue, we justify the allegations more truth then lie. Our poor people are suffering in the refugee camps and rich and clever enjoying the comfort.
As saying goes” NACH NU JANDAI NA A GuN TE DRA” this is the real reason for mission fail..not me.mind your language.
I agree with the views expressed by Ram. In a country where there is no law of the land besides Tashichho Dzong auto-directed interests, their arbitrary implementations, suppressed monophonic cabinet, palace hand gripped so-called democracy, terrorized subjects, feudalistic imposition of people’s labor etc, no one dares to open a new party without being dearest to the palace. It is nothing more than a palace-mottled sketch, which, after the palace reverie gets to its summit, will be asked to dismiss citing it ‘unwanted element’ as a royal decree.
On the other hand, a few commentators seem to have royal energy generated from the palace. It so seems as if they were the ones who have responsibilities to tackle the crises being produced by the inept royal palace every second and these commentators keep advocating in their favor just to shadow palace’s monolithic atrocities.
As an immediate progeny of the palace, they have been shouldering the risk in response to writers/commentators that also indiscriminately but they don’t know they would end up nowhere. If carefully scrutinized from the perspective of the Bhutanese historical development since its inception, such people who have had a strong dynamism to work in support of the palace had either ended up in life sentence with untold tortures or death penalty.
Let tomorrow be not that dolorous day for you and your family. By the way, have looked around you? You are seen hand-cuffed and shackled by your yesterday’s intimate palace. Decide your destiny.
Mr.bardewa,
“Empty mind devil’s workshop”Are you jobless now? finally you unmasked who you are. Do not play with people’s sentiment. Those friends who made comments on your view were not the leaders you said. they are like you and me.
you could not resist your own disguise portrait. there is the truth.
i love your attempt though
lasho la
mr bardewa ,how dare you used bahun and chhetri ,by the way you darjee,?please write sessible article which wons the hearts of all bhutanese.
Bardewa! Are you an idoit? How came the conspiracy designed by Jigme and other Tibetain descents in Bhutan to wipe Nepali ethic people become small issue for you? Isn’t ethnic cleansing a hug issue? Is not it a horrible crime committed by our JSW. I still doubt you as an agent of JSW as said by Mr. Thunder above.
I think our leaders were cold hearted and weak minded coz they talk, make noise, and finally turned their back when they saw cops in their village. The fact is they were not been able to fight back to the curial regime.
Here is what I think at least they tried but failed! But what about JSW, is not he responsible for making our 1/6 population refugee? IS not he responsible for ethnic cleansing in Bhutan? Is he responsible for suppression of others language, religion, culture, and custom?
My friend thing a issue more seriously before posting your diluted and scattered comments.
Regards!
Your BS
Blacksnake/kancha & binamra ji,
Your one side story has compelled me to come forward and speak truth.We proudly talk about the democracy but do not have quality to act like pro-democratic people.
I mean do respect the grievances of victims of prodemocratic movement. We have started 20 years ago with a promise to bring equal rights to nepali society in bhutan but nothing positive has happened for the poor people till date.
We make allegations to JSW..with one side of the fatcs. so lets talk about the killing of innocent nepali fellow citizens (minus 6″) by so called freedom fighters,destroying of community services like schools/hospitals & bridges in Bhutan.
The violent movement forced JSW to use force .The killing of fellow citizens,destroying of schools/hospitals/bridges/planting bomb and looting/kidnapping of fellow citizens inside bhutan should not be a part of democratic movement.It is against the human rights, freedom of speech,freedom of living etc.
So what is your comments about the another side of the story I have mentioned here ?
People like you who expect change without scarifies made our mission failed. Which country in the world get the freedom and justice, just by signing a proposal?
Come on man, your comments clearly reflects your ideology, and your momentum to see the change in our country. Remember my friend no body will give you the prize of freedom and Human Rights with out some scarifies and with out solely involved in the burning revolution.
I do regrade over the precious but unsuccessful movement lead by our freedom fighters, more than that I regret and always be shamed to see comments of people like you who expect a haven with out a single scarify to get there.
Before the movement
1) Did not JSW introduce the concept of dividing people by categorising in to different group. A, B, C, and so on?
2) Did not JSW banned the freedom of wearing the clothes our choice?
3) Did not JSW banned Nepali language School, Padshalas, books and Magazine from our country?
Who the hell in the world would tolerate this type of suppression of one ethnic class? That is why I believe our people started the movement for freedom to practice their culture, tradition and dress code.
On the meantime JSW used his middleman and spies to turn-down the movement for freedom. Which eventually seemed to be violent and misleading. Here, I do need to blame on our leader because they weren’t able to understand the conspiracy and dirty little secret designed by JSW in between them.
Be broad and be positive my friend! Money will speak for some years, truth will speaks for ever.
Regards!
Your BS
Bardewa, you mentioned about the killing of some innocent fellow Bhutanese by so called freedom fighters that are accused of destroying community services like schools/hospitals & bridges in the country and the retaliatory actions in defense.
Does that not mean the innocent people of Bhutan were sandwiched between the two opposing forces and continue to suffer loss of properties, rights and the very lives? Who do you hold responsible for the gruesome acts of taking away lands, citizenships and associated rights of the Bhutanese people in the name of anything? Which of the two criminals do you hold accountable? Certainly not the freedom fighters as they do not own BHUTAN to do whatever they like!
Anyways, it is good to hear about the emergence of a third Party to dispel the dark shadow of absolutism of ruling elites of the past and now the ruling party that are powerless to act in favour of the people they represent. We need a sustainable Democracy that need not be supported with State Funding. We are in need of young revolutionaries to march out of the cocoon of old, stinking, filthy box to openness of Equality, Liberty and Fraternity. If Dr. Tandin Dorji can facilitate that, he will be the pioneer of practical Bhutanese Democracy.
Blacksnake jew,
You have mentioned that, no country in the world get freedom and justice with out violent struggle. I do not agree with you.
Non violence movement of Late shree Mohandas Karamchad Gandhi in India and Mr.Nelson Mendla’s freedom struggle in Africa has respected by the world community. Ofcourse.. they were beaten,tortured,put into jail and their followers killed, but they never killed innocent fellow citizens.They lived/
slept and eat together with the fellow supporters
But in our case we killed/tortured/kidnapped/looted innocent fellow citizens and clever and rich never lived in the refugee camps ,their children never
read with refugee children and finally left for third country settlement leaving behind poor and innocent fellow citizens in the refugee camps.
Those leaders with the support of violent struggle were killed like dog i.e.Subash chandra Bose,Nathu ram, etc in India and Samdam Hussin,Osama Bin Laden are the latest figures.
It seems that, you are innocent about the in and out causes of our struggle and the good gestures shown by jsw to nepali in Bhutan.
Causes:-
It was in 1950 nepali congress led by Besceswar Parsad koirala in nepal managed to toppled Royal Govt. of Late His Majesty Mahaindra Bikram Saha. In 1952 a group of disgruntal nepalis in Bhutan supported by Koirala and team tried to revolt against the royal Govt. with a hope to follow the line of Nepal and plan of creating greater nepal comprising sikkim,Darjeeling,Kalimpong and souhtern part of Bhutan for vested intrest.It was started in Chirang(now Tshirang) and HQ was established in Jalpaiguri India. But Govt. of Bhutan/sikkim and India managed
to root out their plan.
In 1990 movement, we brunt down national dress,brunt national flag and disannounced national language which we refugee TODAY proudly wear/display infront of international community to beg help.
Good gesture of JSW before 1990 movement :-
Free land provided to landless (sukumbasi) nepali living in Bhutan. Awarded cash
reward of RS.10,000/= for marriage between Drukpa and nepali. Opened Saskrit patsala,construced nepali mandirs in Samchi,Chirang,Gaylegphu,Sarbang etc.
Introduced nepali subject in schools.Appointed nepali officers in higher post like District commissioner,Minister,Royal Advisor and higher rank in Armed forces and also inducted nepali officers as his personal body guards.
Conclusion :-
But a small group of nepali in Bhutan supported by few nepali leaders from out side Bhutan undermind king’s gesture as weak leadership and tried to revolt against the King’s Govt. again in 1990.
I am in support of innocent (victims) people living in refugee camps and concern for the future of their childern.