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Kathmandu Saturday August 11, 2001 Shrawan 27, 2058.
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DNC’s split will not
affect Bhutanese movement: say leaders
Post Report
BHADRAPUR, Jhapa, Aug 10 - Bhutanese refugee
leaders continue to reiterate their commitments towards the decade old Bhutanese movement
despite the split in Druk National Congress (DNC), one of the Bhutanese parties in exile
fighting for their rights.
The DNC split recently after the party’s
prominent leaders parted ways over intra-party democracy functioning.
Some of the central committee members
dismissed DNC President Rongthong Kunley Dorji and appointed Vice-Chairman Chheku Dukpa to
the post due to internal political conflict and row. Dorji who was long imprisoned in
Delhi, India but conditionally released later remains Delhi bound by court orders.
The DNC’s new leader Dukpa said that his
party was interested to build a United Front with other Bhutanese political parties in
exile. In view of the growing differences between the two factions, there exist a tug of
war over the control of the Kakarvitta, Jhapa and Silguri, India based party offices. Both
the splinters claim of having wide supports within the refugees population.
Chairman of the Bhutan People’s Party
(BPP) RK Budhathoki said that though the dispute was purely an internal matter of the DNC,
it would in no way affect the refugee movement for repatriation to their homeland in
dignity.
Budhathoki said that all the Bhutanese parties
will come together to build a united front to accelerate towards the repatriation of
refugees. He added that a joint draft report was being prepared to pave way for the
creation of United Front on consensus basis.
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