Bardo – Trong, Zhemgang
Registered voters: 12,079 | Male: 5,941 | Female: 6,138
Pema Dakpa
Age: 55
Work experience: 14 years as civil servant in MoAL and 10 years as MP in National Council
Education: BSc in Agricultural Engineering and MSc in Food Technology
What inspires you in life?
Continue learning
What do you like the most about the Bardo-Trong constituency?
Rich land and simplicity people
Did you join the party or the party asked you to join?
Joined the party
People say it hardly matters which party forms the government. Your views.
People are very selective of party to form the government
Why do you think Zhemgang has lagged behind in terms of development for so long?
Slow road connectivity and subsistence farming
What do you think is the most important pledge for the constituency at the moment?
Increasing household income
How will you change Zhemgang in the next five years?
Reduce poverty by half
If you don’t win, what next?
Work for avocado commercilization facilitated with oil processing plant at strategic location.
Lekey Dorji
Age: 54
Work experience: Civil servant, corporate executive, CEO, Consultant, Chairperson and board director on several companies, MP and minister for economic affairs
Education: M.Sc in telecom (UK), BSc. in Engineering (USA, Fulbright)
What inspires you in life?
My late father grew up an orphan without access to education but he self- taught to educate himself, and brought up fourteen of us. This knowledge always inspires me.
What do you like the most about the Bardo-Trong constituency? Simplicity and genuineness of the majority of the constituents.
Did you join the party or the party asked you to join?
I am one of the founders of PDP in 2007 and spent the first three years after the devastating primary round loss in 2018 keeping the party and the candidates intact.
People say it hardly matters which party forms the government. Your views.
It does matter which party forms the government, particularly at this critical juncture when our nation is going through existential crisis never faced before. Would you want an experienced driver or any new driver when traveling through an icy stretch of Dochula in peak winter? It’s like saying any captain, with or without experience, will do to steer the ship in a stormy and rough ocean. It does not make sense to have an inexperienced government led by an inexperienced leader at this critical time.
Why do you think Zhemgang has lagged behind in terms of development for so long?
Zhemgang was late in getting road access. Two interior Gewogs of Shingkhar and Bardo built the roads only during my earlier tenure as MP. Without road access government intervention is minimal and no government official, let alone the top brass, visit.
What do you think is the most important pledge for the constituency at the moment?
Five most important pledges are 770MW Chamkharchu hydropower project; road access to Bumthang and Monggar to open up interior Kheng; road improvements and blacktopping; central school; and opening up Zhemgang’s rich biodiversity and cultural identity to tourists.
How will you change Zhemgang in the next five years?
PDP government will open up all of Kheng to mainstream economy through road access, enhanced living standards and household incomes, and better access to education for our children.
If you don’t win, what next?
The sky will not fall. Life will go on and I will engage in activities to improve life and living in our motherland.