Friday, August 2, 2013

Who could be more humble than him?

Let us take a look at the world around us. Who does not want to take a ride in a luxurious car? Who does not want to live in a peaceful bungalow? If provided, who will deny of employing servants and security officials? But there is a man who is denying all these today. He is the new ‘Humble’ Prime Minister of Bhutan, Tshering Tobgay.
 
I am in my late twenties. Several Prime Ministers ascended the throne, showed their face and ruled the country. Denying the services had never been talked of. Newspapers never got to carry this weighty beat. I never heard them rejecting their so-called Thoblam. For now I doubt if they were, at all, entitled to such thoblams or they simply had no courage to utter “No”.
Whatever may be, I am taken aback by his grand gesture. It is a truth, yet hardly spoken, that we spend a lot for state protocol (which otherwise could be reduced). We never realize that the hard-earned money belonging to the poor people, buried in the shades of mountains, is used in an hour’s festive event of the state officials. We never realize how much help could that money be if given to the pauper of the far flung villages who are deprived of square meals?
We talk everyday the sufferings of people, their atrocities and the help the government of the day needs to render but the talks seldom materialize into action. In several cases, words are born never to be succeeded by their heir, actions.  But I find the Prime Minister as the man of action. I find him as a man consciously concerned for his people. Knowing that Bhutanese, especially down-trodden people, cannot rise up to touch the ceiling, he chose to come down to pick them up by his hands. This is our Leader. Leaders of the soil will not feel embarrassed to stoop and touch the same.
I salute him for his simplicity. During his campaign, I was moved when he sat on a grubby chair while the decorated one remained empty at his side. And after the elections, he chose to deny state protocol and other luxury which he is entitled to. I see in him a great leader.
Because he has chosen to come down, even a common man like me can now imagine talking to his own PM and shaking hands. No more typical protocols to follow! No more fence of 36 police personnel! I will no more think that my PM is unreachable. May you lead us by example always.

11 comments:

  1. Salute and respect!
    Hail PM TT.......!

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  2. Wow!!!!!!!!! You are the one who can write such a article, hats off to you. And I salute to our people's PM too

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  3. I join you in saluting to our PM. Yes like you said, he is a men of action. May you lead us by examples always..

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    1. Thanx Pelgen for being my ardent reader.....You always find time to pen on my thought ...thanx bro....

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  4. there is two different story why TT is doing all those things. i can describe him as a good politician ata

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  5. He is doing only work for short term benefits that can owe the innocent voter

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    1. I do not mean to praise PM Tshering Tobgay for what he is not. I praise him for what he has done. May be my view is myopic but I would like to state, given the fact, that he seems to be genuinely concerned for the people. I have no idea if he is doing all these things to gain name and fame but I simply find his deeds magnanimous. No PMs of the past did this although they said they are very much concerned of their people. I want someone who does it and PM T.T is doing it.

      You say what he does is of a short term benefit. I agree. On a major degree, what he is doing is right and great (just up to this point because I cannot see the future). For instance, you are thirsty and you need a glass of water immediately. In such a situation, would you prefer to have a glass of cool water placed before you or would you prefer to build tanks and water taps to get water? I think by the time you build water tanks and taps, you would already be dead. Bhutan is in a thirsty situation now with lots of loans to be paid and systems to be cleaned. What you need is to address these immediately which is a short term. This short term will in turn lead to the benefits in the long run. Just a thought pls....hehe

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  6. Just look at their manifestos:
    JYT: Self reliance and sovereignty, Peace and happiness of the people: This is for the future of the country.
    TT: bolero, power tiller, fuel stations, salary raise. : A vision for one or two year and get vote.
    Look at the above and we can see who would have benefited Bhutan. If not careful, country will be at stake.

    Ata sharing my opinion namu , don’t mind la, Simply I love to work with all the member of parliament in this five years and whatever they do it is for us and at the end of the day we are still Bhutanese ni mai mu

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    1. How do you achieve self reliance? Do you get peace and happiness without doing anything? If your salary is not raised, if you do not have bolero that you need, will you be happy? If you are not happy, will the nation be happy? It is not that DPT is going to bring peace and happiness in stock for people. They are going to do it by the same promises what PDP has promised. It is not that PDP does not have such aims as DPT. It is only that you have not read their manifestoes in depth. You are comparing the long term goal of DPT and the short term goal of PDP. There will be difference. You compare both their long term and shot term goals. You will come to know that its time to read more haha....by the way I am not pro-PDP. I support DPT too.

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  7. i understand you are ??????????????????????????????????????? Anyway it is in your hand and every body had right lol mosh Ataaa

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