Shompangkha, Sarpang
Registered voters: 14,637 | Male: 7,297 | Female: 7,340
Lachuman Ghalley
Age: 41
Work experience: Served as teacher for 12 years 2 months
Education: MBA (Finance)
How would you describe yourself?
I am a humble, dedicated, service oriented and straight forward person.
What motivated you to join politics?
The current economic slowdown, exodus and systemic flaws made me realized to attend the call of the nation as an educated citizen. Moreover the Bhutan Tendrel Party president’s qualities and the pool of the candidates have the potential to resolve the current national issues and challenges. These motivated me to join politics to serve the people in better ways.
Democracy is a democracy. How can ours be unique?
Our democracy was granted from the golden throne by our visionary monarch so peacefully and it is rooted with good values and best practices of democratic process. Therefore our democracy is unique.
Where do you see yourself five years from now?
I will be serving my king, country and people differently.
How do you assess your chances of winning in the upcoming general election?
I could foresee good opportunities if the people of my constituency maintains similar trend of understandings about the general election. As an individual I am offering as one of the potential candidate choice to the people of Shompangkha constituency. Whether to win or lose is in the hands of the voters.
How do you rate your opponent on a scale of 1 to 10?
Eight
What are your long term goals for the constituency and the country?
To promote balanced development in all the gewogs and chewogs of my constituency which will finally contributes for a prosperous Bhutan in the near future.
What challenges do you anticipate Bhutan will encounter in the next five years?
If the trend remains same then economic challenges, population crisis, unemployment issues, problem of self-sufficiency are some of the possible challenges that we may encounter in the years to come.
Most of us hardly have any skills and are yet reluctant to bend our backs, even to clean our own surroundings. Why is it that the dignity of labour is not the value we can take pride in?
We have to instill civic sense and values in the minds of the people through advocacy programs about waste management and its impact. We have to promote the sense of dignity of labour and change the mindset of the people for a better future. We have noted various measures and strategies in our manifesto to tackle all those problems wisely and meaningfully. I am sure this policies and actions will bring improvements in the near future.
Dr Tek Bahadur Rai
Age: 64
Work experience: 41 years in Royal Bhutan Army as GDMO, Medical Specialist, Consultant Medicine and Chief Medical Officer, Army Medical Service.Education: MBBS, M.D Internal Medicine
How would you describe yourself?
Simple, straightforward, hardworking, and goal oriented.
What motivated you to join politics?
To serve the nation and people to the fullest capacity as long as one is capable. I wanted to guide the people in general to function efficiently for building their lives and nation.
Democracy is a democracy. How can ours be unique?
Our democracy is unique as we have constitutional monarchy in the country to give valuable guidance and protection while governing the country.
Where do you see yourself five years from now?
I would be a more contented person for having served the nation. I would be leading a semi- retired life but always available for the call of nation and give professional help to the people if required.
How do you assess your chances of winning in the upcoming general election?
In 15 years of democracy, people are aware of the value of democratic principles, whereby a competent party can serve them better. Pdp has the required experience, credible leadership and excellent past track records. As a candidate , I have served the people of my constituency well and know most of their difficulties for which I am well prepared to tackle. In the primary round people supported me generously and I won from all the 21 constituency , except 1. Hoping for the similar result.
How do you rate your opponent on a scale of 1 to 10?
He is a credible opponent. It is unkind to rate a person from my perspective as people are the real decision makers.
What are your long term goals for the constituency and the country?
A developed and prosperous nation. People of my constituency to be happy and contented guided by the GNH philosophy.
What challenges do you anticipate Bhutan will encounter in the next five years?
The challenges anticipated would be:
Youth unemployment
Bringing back the emigrated Bhutanese back to the country.
Declining population.
Brain drain.
Decline in the social, cultural and traditional values with the rapid development.
Rise in cyber crimes and its solution.
Most of us hardly have any skills and are yet reluctant to bend our backs, even to clean our own surroundings. Why is it that the dignity of labour is not the value we can take pride in?
The rising literacy rate , leads to ignoring of blue collar jobs. Value based education and advocacy on dignity of labour are the necessary tools to reverse the attitude.