Bhutan’s Prime Minister resigns ahead of polls
INDIA: Bhutan’s prime minister Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk and six cabinet
ministers resigned on Thursday to contest the kingdom’s first elections
designed to bring democracy, state television said.
“I on behalf of six other ministers submitted our resignation from
our current posts to His Majesty the King on Thursday morning to join
the political process,” the Bhutan Broadcasting Corporation quoted
Khandu as saying.
“The seven of us will leave our current position from August 6,” the
Prime Minister said.
Bhutan will hold its first elections in February and May 2008.
The country’s election commission guidelines require contestants to
resign from their current posts in the government and in the private
sector.
Khandu said he would hand over the prime minister’s office to the
minister of works and human settlement Lyonpo Kinzang Dorji.
Guwahati, Friday, AFP
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