The first is likely to be commissioned six months before scheduled date of December 2016 The Punatshangchu I and II projects are on schedule and at least one project could be completed six months ahead. The latest progress reported on the two projects in the western district of Wangdue were presented at meeting between the project authority and gov ...

DPT Campaign Starts from “Historical” Dzong

The party has chosen to begin, like it did the last time around, from the heartland Just as the party did in 2008, Druk Phuensum Tshogpa kicked off their campaign from Trongsa yesterday. The party president Jigmi Y Thinley said they believed it was “good” and the right thing to start from a historic place like Trongsa. Lying in the heart of the cou ...

Druk Phuensum Tshogpa with Jigmi Y. Thinley and Jigme Trygve Drukpa

Speech by DPT President, Jigmi Yoezer Thinley, during Common Forum at Gonpa Singma, Pemagatshel, 27th May 2013 On behalf of Druk Phuensum Tshogpa, I would like to thank all our fellow citizens for the five years of privilege to serve and earn merit and tshog by giving us the benefit of your trust and confidence. I thank you for meeting my colleague ...

DPT not for horse-trading: Jigmi Y.Thinley

Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) is not engaged in a tussle with the People’s Democratic Party to rope in candidates from Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa clarified DPT’s President, Jigmi Y.Thinley, in a press conference, yesterday. “I want to make it categorically clear that Druk Phuensum Tshogpa is not engaged in any such competition. We have 47 candidates in 47 ...

DPT’s new candidate for Radhi-Sagteng

DPT’s new candidate for Radhi-Sakteng Constituency in Trashigang is 29 year old Jigme Wangchuk. The commerce graduate is a former candidate for Druk Chirwang Tshogpa. Jigme has worked in the tourism as well as construction sectors.

Jun 17, 2013 0 Sell not your votes, says JYT

Doing so would mean losing ones authority to hold accountable the government they might elect Besides usual clarifications on issues the rival party associated Druk Phuensum Tshogpa with, its president Jigmi Y Thinley cautioned some 100 people from Lobesa he met at the gewog centre on June 15. The president did the same with people of Kabisa and Th ...

DPT promises self-reliance by 2020

Achieving economic self-reliance by 2020, improving rural life and providing employment to every youth are the three prime areas Druk Phuensum Tshogpa’s (DPT) manifesto focuses on. To achieve the self-reliance by 2020, DPT will continue to have a sustainable economic growth with an average of 8 percent growth rate during the eleventh five year plan ...

Mudslinging goes LIVE

As the election debates broadcast LIVE on BBS are in full swing every evening, many viewers and observers say the candidates are involved in heated debate, often making personal and unethical remarks. Yesterday in Monggar, it was a normal debate in the beginning, 10 minutes of presentation by each candidate. Both the candidates, PDP’s Jigme Zangpo ...

JYT Clarifies on Education City Story

All it took was a question from a reporter during the press conference yesterday at Druk Phuensum Tshogpa office for the party president Jigmi Y Thinley to respond in a fervent guttural voice. It was with regards some media, including social ones informing of former ministers and their spouses including relatives owning land “next to” the Education ...

PDP’s Kanglung-Samkhar-Udzorong candidate warned

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate of Kanglung-Samkhar-Udzorong Constituency, Norbu Wangchuk, has been reprimanded and warned by the Dzongkhag Election Dispute Settlement Body (DEDSB) in Trashigang. The verdict was passed today. Norbu Wangchuk was accused by Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) for speaking about party coalition, regionalism and ...