Pema Jungney in a June 2016 file photo. TibetanParliament.org
By Lobsang Wangyal
McLEOD GANJ, India, 8 April 2021
Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile Pema Jungney has resigned as both Speaker and member of Parliament.
Jungney posted about his resignation on his Facebook page earlier today.
His resignation was triggered following the clarification of the clauses of the Tibetan Charter by former Tibetan political leader Samdhong Rinpoche.
“I resigned following Samdhong Rinpoche’s statements in the Voice of Tibet interview, as I cannot take responsibility, [… ghen soeki yoe marey], not that I accept any wrongdoing,” Pema Jungney told Tibet Sun.
“Rinpoche was in the Charter drafting committee, Charter amendment drafting committee, and also in enacting the Charter into law. Unlike others, when Rinpoche speaks there is a difference.”
When asked for clarification about what he meant by “cannot take responsibility”, no further explanation was given.
Rinpoche found that the members of the Tibetan Parliament had violated many of the clauses of the Charter when they impeached and deposed the Chief Justice Commissioner and two other Commissioners of the Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission.
The Tibetan Parliament had dismissed the three Justices on 25 March following a two-thirds majority vote through secret ballot.
The Parliament charged that the Justices unlawfully took suo moto [taking action on their own] cognisance in penalising the Speaker, Deputy Speaker, and nine Standing Committee Members for their decision to scrap the September 2020 session of the Parliament over Coronavirus concerns.
The Justices, taking suo moto initiative, had found that the scrapping of the September session violated Article 40 of the Tibetan Charter, which requires the Parliament to be in session every six months.
Another member of Parliament, Lobsang Choejor representing Amdo province, also resigned on similar grounds of taking moral responsibility after Samdhong Rinpoche’s clarifications.
Samdhong Rinpoche, in an interview to Voice of Tibet radio, said that the dismissal of the three Justices has created a “constitutional breakdown”, as the Tibetan Charter does not allow for all three Justices to be dismissed at the same time.
Rinpoche also found that according to Article 54, an inquiry committee should be formed, giving full chance for the accused justices to present their arguments, and then hold parliamentary discussion on the report submitted by the inquiry committee.
No such inquiry committee was formed, and the three justices were dismissed within less than two hours on the morning of 25 March.
The Parliament will be in session at the end of May to appoint a new Chief Justice and the other two justices.
An anonymous letter, said to be written by three senior staff members and widely circulated on social media, wrote that a plan has been hatched to appoint Pema Jungney as the Chief Justice, and Deputy Speaker Acharya Yeshi Phuntsok and CTA’s Minister of Health Choekyong Wangchuk as the other two justices.
Regarding the anonymous letter, Jungney said that it was baseless. “These allegations are all rumours. I see no reason to respond to such ‘fake news’.”
A new Tibetan political leader (Sikyong) is being elected by the exile Tibetans on 11 April in the final round of voting, and will be taking oath of office at the end of May. The oath will have to be administered by the Chief Justice.
Note::
This story has been updated with quotes from Pema Jungney.
Initially democratic crisis took place due to misleading public and misusing power by the TSJC. In a democracy, if someone’s fundamental democratic right is forfeited or deprived, it is called democratic crisis in political science. It is very serious offence and in civilized world the Supreme court step forward to safeguard democratic right ie, voting right. Instead TSJC forcibly deprived of voting rights of the 11 MPs that include the Speaker of the House. It was a real democratic crisis and constitutional breakdown. Where was Norway media, NGOs of Cholkas, Toepa Kyiduk, the Union of the former TSJC, ex-Zhungzhap, ex-Varanasi Student Alumni. Writers etc to express their concern against the TSJC for democratic crisis happened first time in the exile history. Are these all blind or ignored because the TSJC belongs to friendly Cholkha and Zhungzhap Nyingpa who own the exile government. In the Western world voting rights for the woman is earned through centuries fight for equality and in exile the voting right is misused for punitive measures. Isn’t it a serious offence? But due to bias no one has so far expressed concern about this kind of democratic crisis took place. Every elite group, instigators and dirty politicians came up to express their concern for three people being impeached according to democratic proceeding. Suo moto does not provide in the Charter but when Samdong Rinpoche agreed it does to media through his informal words, opportunists fight back to Chithues. Their first retaliation succeed for curtailing Tsogtso Pema Jungney to win this election. There are no articles in the charter to reinstate after impeachment. In fact, Knowingly putting pressure on Chithues is the ill-motivation of igniting disturbance and provocation.
After going through these comments and the vitriol filled attack back and forth but mainly from PT’s supporters in the run up to this election, I can safely say that majority of Khampas have no interest in such pettiness. These people are now showing their true color as His Holiness has stepped away from politics. We Khampas are in disbelief at the turmoil created to push a narrative and paint everything as black and white. So much pettiness and viciousness.
This crisis is not about Kham/Amdo and Utsang. It is about respecting our charter, rule of law and to protect our democratic pillars for our democracy to survive. CTA and our democracy is in chaos due to 31 Chithues and total silence of our present Kashag. Rinpoche clearly explained our charter to us and it is our responsibility to protect our charter and rule of law. Public has to urge our Chithues to reinstate all our three judges in May when Chithues hold special session in May. When Chithues vote in the parliament it should not be any secret ballot, so that Chithues can be held accountable. Then we would know who are those 31 chitues or they will have their chance to do attest one good thing at last. Please don’t blame Khampas because we know there are so many good Khampas as well. We all are the same sons and daughters of Gangchenpas. We all make mistakes but we also know how to forgive as well but do the right thing and respect our charter. Public should question our Kashag, why they are so silent? Inspite of all our request, if they don’t listen, then it is our duty to inform His Holiness. That is our final solution.
The most mysterious thing in this whole drama is the silence of Jamyang Norbu? What happened to him after praising Sikyong LS as phenomenal leader for getting Tibet Policy Act passed?
Is he still “waiting for Mangsto”?
I used to be a fan of Jamyang Norbu, but LS started telling us how he got hold of Jamyang Norbu’s cajole after finding his Achilles heel in Dolma Gyari’s candidacy that he blackmailed Dolma Gyari to get Jamyang Norbu to praise him. LS is saying Jamyang Norbu started singing like canaries and he now can’t go back on his words. LS is now regaling everyone by telling this story everywhere now.
Jamyang Norbu la, your silence now and LS praise has damaged your brand forever unless you speak up. I hope someone convey this message to JN.
Thanks.
You are so [mean]. Your nasty and despicable intention is to sow a seed of hate and controversy. Please be careful of such Chinese dog!
Word is cojones.
“The definition of cojones is a vulgar Spanish word that refers to a man’s testicles, and is a slang term for having courage. A man’s testicles are an example of cojones. When you wish to tell someone to get up the courage to do something, this is an example of a time when you might advice him to show some cojones.“
LS says, he got to crush JN’s cojones by blackmailing Gyari Dolma.
I respect Jamyang Norbu more when he focuses more on history and academics than in politics. It is better he stays away from politics.
I too heard Lobsang Sangay told Dolma Gyari to stop Jamyang Norbu from criticizing Kaydor any further after he condemned Kaydor and LS’s political legacy as zero. JN heeded to Gyari’s advice and sang praises of LS in another video. LS was able to change the tune of JN through Gyari, but he and Kaydor secretly stole all the votes from Gyari through backdoor deals with different monastic heads and local leaders.
However much LS and Kaydor try to win this election through sweet talks to the public, negative campaign against PT, and backstabbing and betrayal of Gyari, Kaydor is likely to loose to PT by a huge margin. If not for these two selfish clowns, Gyari would have been in the finals and it would have been a tough competition between PT and Gyari in the race towards Sikyong. However, it is not to be! As much as I lament the missed opportunity for Gyari, I will be voting for our next sikyong ie Penpa Tsering la the day after tomorrow!
WHERE DO THE KHAMPA MAJORITY STAND IN SIKYONG ELECTION AND SACKING OF CJC?
Online activities are confusing. We see Khampa elements on YouTubes and WeChat giving the false impression that all Khampas support CJC’s removal. But this is not true.
Let me give an example of DHONDUP LHADAR. He is a one-time fasting Rangzen stuntman. Lacking any credentials, he adopted the shortcut to publicity—criticizing HH and SR. With no wisdom or patriotism of Lhasangla or Jamyangla, these new Rangzen breeds are self-serving publicists. They only know that Rangzen stunts make fast publicity and good supporting immigration documents. These elements have been trying to hijack major institutions like TYC and TWA for some time now. They lack basic political awareness that some even carried Tibetan flags to support a US partisan politics that led to Capitol Hill riots. Canada-based disrobed monk TENZIN YESHI is another Khampa item. A relative of Tulku Ogyen Topgye, his stand during OT’s criticism of HH says everything.
We also have such elements in other regions too. See Utsang MILA RANGZEN, Utsang monk TENZIN LUNGTOK, Utsang TAMTSE TSERING and Amdo THOKMEY. So dark characters are not unique to Khampa alone. You will see only regionalists commenting favorably in their forums.
When Utsang PJ and YP sacked the CJC, it is a Khampa SR that stood up. When, Khampa LS went reckless, it was Amdo PT and Utsang and Khampa CJC members that stood up. So it is about character, principles, values, and justice, not region.
Utsangwa and Amdowa voted for SR and LS one time over candidates from their own regions. It is now the time for us Khampas to show that we care more for Tibet than our narrow-minded regionalism! The silent majority Khampas will hugely vote for PT this time!
Tibet Unite!
Yes, Dhondup Ladhar is a big mouth Trumpster who thrives on empty talks and for his endless criticisms against CTA, HH and SR for his own self-promotion. Only regionalist sheep and shugden followers blindly follow this arrogant joker. Who the hell does he think he is? Why should we even listen to him?
Looking at people like Dhondup Lhadar who also claims to be a khampa and the type of khampas who support him, I feel we khampas are known to be much better than this. We can do way better than this.
I strongly agree with Pasang la. We khampas should rise above narrow sense of regionalist attitude and vote for Tibet and Tibetans. My vote goes to PT and hope he works hard for His Holiness and all Tibetans!
Thank you very much Pasang la for enlightening me. After going through your writing twice, I have decided to vote for Kaydor la for Sikyong.
Chamdo: You poor thing, is that all you can say? Who is stopping you from enjoying your freedom of speech? Freedom of speech doesn’t mean you are free to malign people without basis. You and your uneducated lot only indulge in malicious attacks on people. THAT IS ABUSE OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH. THAT IS AGAINST THE LAW OF ALL COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD!
I am the one who stands for freedom of speech. I am the one who is fighting for the freedom of thought. I want freedom to speak the way I wish with my own thought and hold ideologies according to my own belief.
What I am against is HATE SPEECH and all of you are guilty of hate speech. You claim to follow HH but doesn’t even know what his teaching is. Haven’t you heard of his essential teaching, ལྟ་བ་རྟེན་འབྱུང་དང་སྤྱོད་པ་འཚེ་བ་མེད་པ། Non-hurtful or non violence. Does your speech add up to HH’s teaching?
You poor thing. You think that if you slander me I will keep quite? Is this the way to conduct discourse in democracy? Because you can’t challenge me with reason you resort to name calling! You are a pathetic creature!
Just goes to show you don’t have an inkling of HH’s teaching and behaves worse than a Chinese communist.
I will criticise when criticism is demanded. Who are you to stop me?
Why are you criticising Pema Jungney and Acharya? Did SR condemn them? Did he say, they were wrong? If you are his follower, do like him without criticising any one. Then you can claim to be a good follower. Otherwise, you are a hypocrite!!!
Samdhong Rinpoche’s intervention helped to clarify the deadlock faced in the exact interpretation of the legal clauses cited in the impeachment that is now found to be bereft of due process, unconstitutional in interpretation and decision, and many more. It has been more than two weeks since the impeachment on 25th March and all our top leaders have gone Missing-in-Action. Our “US government recognized Sikyong” is seen on an irresponsible campaign tour to energize the flagging campaign of his prodigy Kaydor. For majority of the public like us who are overwhelmed by the upcoming election campaign, paralyzed by leadership vacuum in Dharamshala, and the resultant chaos in the society, SR’s courageous arrival on the scene on his personal capacity truly gave a sense of hope, clarity and direction. His interview clearly showed his in-depth legal knowledge and expertise, and his utmost respect for the rights and responsibilities of individuals and institutions in a democracy became amply clear when he left the way forward in the hands of the public. I guess SR believed in the power of information for the public to make informed decisions. It is said somewhere, “knowledge is power, and transparency is the remedy to the darkness under which abuse and corruption thrives.” Thank you S Rinpoche for always rising to the occasion for His Holiness and us Tibetans with your gutsy, ethical and value-driven leadership that always triumphs over petty divides and personal prejudices. Thank you!
SR respects Pema Jungey la for his service, but had to come out and speak because PJ misinterpreted and cited SR to argue a constitutional basis for his removal of CJC. What PJ, YP and TPiE did was simple—1. They violated existing Articles 5 and 62 citing reasons of COVID, 2. They ignored CJC letter asking TPiE to convene session (like other countries. Even US was holding election when COVID peaked), 3. Removed CJC by taking advantage of the absence of removal clauses and without due process.
I empathize the circumstances under which PJ, a potential candidate for future CJC, had to resign. He might have seen his removal of the CJC as bolstering his eligibility. But, through his action, he and TPiE destroyed the Third Pillar. Even his resignation will not commensurate for the harm that he and TPiE did to our democracy.
In the absence of the third pillar, we cannot avoid these events unfolding—1. Sikyong using CTA resources to campaign for Kaydor, 2. Election Commissioner taking advantage of the absence of CJC to commit foul play, 3. Sikyong extending his stay in Kashag under pretext of a parliament session adjournment, 4. TPiE postponing appointment of the new Sikyong (Private opinion polls favor PT!), 5. Manipulating the appointment of the new CJC members. 6. TPIE and Kashag hijacking the power and function of an independent judiciary.
Although, I commend Pema Jungney la for resigning, I would have appreciated more if he had resigned by realizing the gravity of his own action, and not because someone said so. SR was only there to extricate his name from the mess that you and TPiE created in SR’s name.
Rather than resigning, he should have taken responsibility for what he did to our CTA.
30 years of service – he failed all of us.
BAD leaders care about who is right.
GOOD leaders care what is right.
@J Tenzin & Tador:
The people who are possessed by Dolgyal’s spirit are the followers of Penpa Tsering. Just read the vicious and venomous attacks on people who have served the Tibetan community for 50 years. You and your storm troopers have attacked every civil servant from the Sikyong to the Kashag and now the chithue! This proves you are possessed by the Dolgyal རྒྱལ་འགོང་ so you just don’t know what you are doing!!!!
Because you have no brain to challenge my words, you resort to blacken people by hurling abuse, right? You are pathetic! This is your classic way of getting away with murder, right? You low life! I pity you!
Tador: མ་མཐོང་ཕྱིར་ན་མེད་པ་མིན་(Just because you haven’t seen doesn’t mean they are non-existent) There are millions of law experts beside SR!!! They have their own way of interpreting the intricacies of the laws in their respective countries. SR is not the only one who knows about our constitution. There are many OTHER Tibetan lawyers and they have a different take of the present crises. Our constitution is taken from the Indian constitution, so any Indian law student can interpret our constitution as well. Is that allowed in your version of democracy or ONLY SR must prevail?
What has SR’s intervention helped? It has now disrupted the Chithue Doetsok alas well. Is that an improvement on top of the three dismissed Justice commissioners? Please explain!
You talk of bias. can you tell me who is NOT BIASED? Ask your Guru the meaning of these lines: ཇི་སྲིད་ཕུང་པོར་འཛིན་ཡོད་པར། དེ་སྲིད་དེ་ལ་ངར་འཛིན་ཡོད། ངར་འཛིན་ཡོད་ན་ཡང་ལས་ཏེ། དེ་ལས་ཀྱང་ནི་སྐྱེས་པ་ཡིན། If you grasp the meaning of these lines, you will know whether there is anybody without bias.
Good luck!
Man! Go and get some chill pill. Do breathing exercise; anulom-vilom. Chant some mantras.
When in distress, I think of Kundun and Samdhong Rinpoche is one of his trusted ones. When you couldn’t make sense, all you could think of was Dolgyal. Go on, chant some mantras and meditate. There is no point debating with you.
Hey Silden Gangri, are you Chinese spy or Dogyal follower? Stop destroying our unity. You are not real Tibetan, you may be paid by Chinese. Professor Samdhong Rinpoche is living scholar and you should not complain his thoughts and explanation of the clauses of the Constitution. See our present Sikyong, he is not able to say or write correct Tibetan. He do not care about other people’s health and lives. Why he is travelling to all over the place since there is the technology to address the people. LS done nothing good but harmed our nation. History will tell us.
Silden Gangri:
it seems Silden Gangri is a shugden follower, everytime our normal tibetans write down their private opinions he will be the first one to comment against all, he is discouraging our freedom of speech and spreading all the fake news ever. he has shugden guts to malign Samdhong Rinpoche, who has dedicated his entire life in building tibetan refugees welfare with HH the Dalai Lama, whatever we have today, schools, monasteries, institutions, settlements, constituition, etc. are the fruits of his legacies. he is the second to HH the Dalai Lama, who has showered his blessings and dedications to us tibetans, silden gangri, may you be punished for all these false allegations. DIKCHEN DIKCHEN sinner sinner sinner
you sinful attitude even the god will not forgive you.
How is that people who are educated in Buddhist Institutions (here In Varanasi Higher Studies) have such an untenable ego?
From this interview and speeches two things are clear.
First: It was all the fault of Supreme Justice Commissioner for not listening to his decision/appeal/threat and hence this problem.
Second: His position has become untenable now because of all things, Samdhong Rinpoche, father of present day Charter/Constitution is not subscribing to his interpretation of constitution. Hence, he is resigning and fault now lies with Samdhong Rinpoche.
Now watch how the cunning fox like Yeshi Phunstok plays his shallow self-centered politics.
Ps: As for Silden Gangri, it seems that Dhogyal spirit has taken hold of him and he is just noting what the evil spirit is dictating him. I pity him.
At last Mr Pema Jungney has gathered enough courage to admit his grievous mistake of leading 31 Chithues to knock off the judicial pillar of the nascent Tibetan democratic system of government-in-exile in less than two hours of sitting of Chithues on 25th March 2021.
It’s too early to say if there is a sting in the tail of his resignation.
But is he alone only supported by the vice Chairman AY Phuntsok? Yes, overtly it looks so!
But in reality the kingpins of 11 Standing committee members are main actors for bringing about this constitutional breakdown as
Lopon Samdhong Rinpoche described it.
This drama seems to have a connection with the Case no 20 as the Sikyong chose to maintain a stoic silence on the matter!
Now it appears that the conspirators not only wanted to ouster 3 judges but also to constitute a Supreme Justice Commission that is friendly towards one of the present Sikyong candidates and not so friendly with the other.
Doesn’t this drama look an ambitious and wide-ranging conspiracy!!?
I disagree with anyone raising the accusing finger against the Professor Samdhong Rinpoche. He is a great scholar and a true patriot who has spent his life in the service of our people.
Rinpoche has a clean track record and had never been involved in corruption cases and other controversies. He is above many others who claimed to be doing a great service for the Tibetans.
We have seen Rinpoche from our school days, and he did his best to look after all our needs during those difficult times. It was a great privilege being his student and got my inspiration from him.
Please do not drag his feet into unnecessary chaos and pathetic situation created by the speaker Pema Jungney who is not fit to the lawmaker in Parliament.
This controversery get murkier now with SR interview and PJ resignation. Communist China must be laughing at us and our so called Central Tibetan administration or Tibetan Govt in exile. Everyone here is an expert in constitution and hope people will listen to both side of the stories.
Whereas Skiyong LS farewell trip to South India self-praising and self-proclamation has surged covid cases in Hunsur Tibetan Settlement and other settlements. At a crucial time like this, does he really need to make farewell trip to collect all the gifts causing danger to the lives of the people? If he really care for people and is truly a selfless leader, then this roadshow should be avoided.
The 11th of April is coming up, people should vote well to avoid such a constitutional crisis. Please vote for future of Tibet and don’t vote on the basis of cholkha, choelug and shichak chikpa. Please vote for true leader who will lead and unite Tibet people again, who is not Mr I, Me and who think carefully before blabbing out.
Why is SR coming out of retirement at this particular time to fish in troubled waters? He can’t be a Kyabje and a political animal simultaneously!
Besides, why should his version of interpretation trump all others who have unambiguously said that the TSJC has no special powers as claimed by them? Legal experts like Lobsang Khenrab from Canada and Tsetan O-den from Germany totally reject that the TSJC has suo motu powers vested in article 67.
When law experts have different opinions on the issue why should SR’s version should be accepted as the truth? After all, our constitution was framed from the Indian constitution and the interpretation would be the same.
Agreed that many of the older generation of chithues need to be changed but Pema Jungney and Acharya have been doing a great job. PJ has a mastery in Tibetan language and so is Acharya. While PJ has a presence in the parliament and command respect, he is straight forward and decisive in making decisions.
Acharya has been active crisscrossing India to give talks in Hindi to the Indian public. There is no one who can do this without having the connection like him.
This report by Lobsang Wangyal has brought up a spurious un-named stray letter planted by the CCP alluding to the collusion and alleged conspiracy to install themselves to the high office! How low Mr Wangyal! That is called yellow journalism.
The letter is planted because it says: སྤྱི་མཐུས་ཚོགས་གཙོར་གྲགས་པ་ The last word གྲགས་པ་ is a negating word. There are three similar words in Tibetan: ལོ་གྲགས་ཟེར་གསུམ་མ་རངས་ཚིགས་ They are similar to “so called” in English. If this stray letter was written by a Tibetan chithue or member of the civil servants, how can they say, that Tsogtso Pema Jungne is SO CALLED Tsoktso? He WAS THE TSOKTSO then!
You are talking about Prof Samdhong Rinpoche, former Kalon Tripa (two terms) 2001-2011, Speaker of the House (two terms) 1991-2001, Member of ‘Constitution Redrafting Committee’ 1991, Member of ‘Constitution Amendment Drafting Committee’ 2011.
Who are Lobsang Khenrab and Tsetan O-den? Never heard of them. It seems you haven’t heard Ngawang Rabgyal, former Tibetan Justice Commissioner and Jigmey Passang, former Jt Secretary of CTA and many more.
It was Pema Jungney, who quoted Samdhong Rinpoche and tried to misrepresent the facts involving Rinpoche. He had no choice but to come out to set the record straight. He would have happily stayed away if his name was not mentioned in the parliament by your favourite Pema Jungney.
Keep your biases to yourself.
“I resigned following Samdhong Rinpoche’s statements in the Voice of Tibet interview, as I cannot take responsibility, [… ghen soeki yoe marey], not that I accept any wrongdoing,” Pema Jungney told Tibet Sun
Wow what an attitude? Still not accepting wrong-doing & not taking up responsibility? What a shame?
You created a history by dismantling the Judiciary, the key pillar of democracy which has never and will ever happen in any democratic country. Even a layperson understands the importance of Judiciary and such an act only weakened the CTA. The noble institution instituted under His Holiness’ Leadership.
Sorry to say but you are selfish, egocentric and cruel person doesn’t deserve to be in the noble institution…People Act Now & use your voting Power.
Why, Harvard Doctorate Sikyong is not caring about the system and not holding these people accountable.. …very fishy and he is busy campaigning for his candidate & he seems to be caring of VOTE. Really sad that he has not learnt lesson from 2016 election & has not changed a bit from creating disharmony in the community. Open your eyes PEOPLE..!
To the people of Tibet and especially the U-Tsang people! Lend me your ears! Read the vitriolic and malicious slanders that is thrown at two of U-Tsang’s most dedicated civil servants: Tsoktso Pema Jungney and Acharya Yeshi Phuntsok. They have dedicated half a century of their prime life in the service of HH The Dalai Lama and the six million Tibetans but look how they are treated when they have come to the evening of their life!
Isn’t this an unforgivable ungrateful act? Pema Jungney and Acharya have served our parliament with distinction for 50 long years! The people who are maliciously throwing such vitriolic are the SUPPORTERS OF PT. Like father like son. These are a band of black flag bearing bandits who are out and out to destroy our Kashag and the Tibetan leadership.
They have consistently targeted our exile Government and continue to do so. These are either CCP lackeys or paid agents of the CCP whose mission is to destroy the Exile Government. Beware of these leeches who are making a living by brandishing black flags against our Government.
If the U-Tsang people got some brain, don’t reject your own people like PJ and AYP but REJECT PENPA TSERING! Do you love PT more than your own representatives in parliament for 50 years. Really? Are you serious?
If you throw out YOUR OWN U-Tsangpas and embrace a stranger like PT, this will demonstrate that the U-Tsangpas are worse than dogs. Even a dog wouldn’t desert its master. U-Tsangpas have thrived because of them.
The case in point is not clear cut as SR has suggested. It’s contested. PJ knew exactly what he was doing. He wouldn’t put the CTA in jeopardy because he is part and parcel of the CTA. He and ATY thrived through this institution. They would never let down the CTA and the people of Tibet.
Pema Jungney and Yeshi Phuntsok have brought nothing but shame to us U-Tsangpas.
Pema Jungney’s malicious intent became clear with his charade of resignation and his attempt to turn Samdhong Rinpoche responsible for the same.
Yeshi Phuntsok is nothing but a puppet. He dances to the tune of gangs of Monlam Tharchin, Tenpa Yarphel, Lobsang Sangay, etc. He calls himself proficient in three languages (skay-yig sum-bden); Tibetan, Hindi and English. I don’t doubt his proficiency in abusing in at least two languages, which he demonstrated time and again. He is gifted in that regard. Taxi drivers in Delhi can vouch for him being gifted in the art of throwing gaalis in Hindi. His skill in Tibetan language was for all to listen. Ask Parliament staff who worked with him.
You talk of gratefulness, aren’t lifelong services of the Justice Commissioners counted at all? They served CTA with distinctions and hence were nominated to the Supreme Justice Commission.
Your attempt to instigate we U-Tsangpas is laughable to say the least. Use better means to promote Kaydor, you may get few extra votes if you come out clean and ask for votes directly with honesty and respect. Have some dignity.
People like you have bolstered my faith in Penpa Tsering all the more. There ain’t a better candidate that Penpa Tsering la this time. He should be voted in to correct all the wrongs.
Yet I will hold the decorum by saying Kaydor isn’t bad, but isn’t fit at the moment. Listen to town hall interviews of both given to all three Tibetan media houses, like I did. His lacunae of experience and depth of knowledge is apparent.
What can I say more!
Kashag under LS remained total silent in the parliament during this crisis and they failed to uphold their pledges under our Charter to protect our three pillars of democracy. They are equally responsible like those 31 Chithues. Kashag has no right to stay in the office any longer. Resign now and we demand immediate reinstatement of all the three judges in our Supreme Justice Commission. We now know what is in our Charter and it was well explained by Rinpoche. Vote for candidates who respect our Charter.
Lobsang Sangay got a JD degree from Harvard. His non-existence thesis was said to be on the Charter of Tibetan democracy. Gaden Podrang financed LS degree and created a Harvard image brand by getting a rich Taiwanese follower of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to sponsor his residency in Harvard in the form of $100K donation which went to LS salary. His scholarship in the form of expertise and knowledge is Zero.
Pema Jungney and his deputy Biharibabu Yeshi Phunstok spent almost a quarter of century in Tibetan parliament and yet, couldn’t comprehend the relevant clauses in our charter. You let them talk BS, foams will be forming from their mouth. But in reality, the present crisis exposed them that they don’t know what they are talking about. People who know them tells me that their real expertise may be the watching third grade Bollywood movies.
How is that Pema Jungney resigns and Lalu Prasad Yeshi Phunstok is acting as Speaker? Hello, panditji you are not going to get the justice commission chair. Tibetan people will not.
Pema Jungney resigned after he left our constitution in crisis, all 31 chithue need to resign or do not vote for them. They did enormous damage to our democracy with knowing or not knowing for personal revenge. Shame on them! Meanwhile where is other branches of democracy, Sikyong and his Cabinet Ministers? LS has b1een travelling all over to campaign for Kaydor. his achievement is to bring down the Justice system. They all remain silent. Shame on them too. This will be one of the darkest moment of our history in exile.
Good to resign. We don’t need like him and other 31 Chithues.
Wondering why is Sikyong so quiet and showing no leadership in this time of crisis.
Pema Jungney is the shipman who would make hope in the ship and jump in water with life-jacket when the ship is sinking. He can’t be trusted for anything. I won’t waste my vote on him.
Will Donkar Wangmo write another Open Letter? Isn’t she still working in CTA? Isn’t she breaking the Langdhor-Drikshi? She was an average teacher. Nepotism helped her become Chief Career Counselor even when what she did was just a School Counselor course. You could judge for yourself how much justice she would have done to her role as the Chief Career Counselor of CTA!!
I fully agreed with you. She was a terrible and biased teacher. What she usually does during her teaching tenure at Mussoorie Homes was just bark. She was a home breaker too. She broke her professor’s family in Iowa due to her affair with the professor. She is no where close to qualifications of chief counselor. Shame on her and she should resign too.
Your lack of respect for dedicated teachers is reflected ivy your writing. Each sentence is full of grammatical mistakes!!!!
Tsamchoe,
your comment reeks of petty personal grudges against the individuals involved. this doesn’t help our cause or resolve issues such as these.
Why would you drag Mrs Dolkar la into the controversy? Can you imagine what she and her family might be going through because of the utter vitriolic comments made against her and her husband? Please have some decency especially against someone who is a woman, mother, and a teacher. She was a highly qualified and accomplished Senior English teacher at Tibetan Homes teaching + 2 students. She had MPhil Degree and later went to America under the Fulbright scholarship to do further studies. She is one of the few who returned back to the community to serve our children. She had been tirelessly working for the good of the Tibetan children. I don’t know what you have achieved, but that is not the point here.
If you are learned, educated and have the decency, you don’t have to insult or bad mouth others. Listen to what Rinpoche said: he stuck to the point – where mistakes were made, who was wrong. Never once did he say anything negative about all involved. He didn’t ask anyone to resign, but the way he dealt with the situation commanded the respect of others and they resigned. This is how you resolve issues. Not like you and others who yell abuses at each other and in the process creating further chaos in the community.
Please, if you care, I request you not to indulge in such despicable actions without any rhyme and reason.
Who said that Mrs Dolkar was a respected teacher. Please don’t fool yourself and others with your hidden agenda. She was just a name sake teacher, who just bark at small issues. Further study, my foot. She was in Iowa and came back to india after broken one happy family as she had an affair with her professor.
There isn’t a word I used here which you could call abusive. I have stated the fact. She is still a CTA staff. She has violated Langdhor-Drikshi by writing so called Open Letter. Pema Jungney was holding a public office and thus was liable for public scrutiny. It is not her job to write Open Letters to defend the Speaker.
I don’t want to further the discussion on Donkar Wangmo. I rest my case just by highlighting that she did violate the CTA Staff Code of Conduct with her writings in social media.
My achievements are none of your business and won’t go bragging around.
We should all oppose tooth and nail if Pema Jungney and his ilk are nominated to the TSJC. Pema Jungney, Acharya Yeshi Phuntsok and their cohorts are responsible for the constitutional breakdown and fatal blow to Tibetan democracy. If they didn’t plan it then what’s stopping them from announcing that they wouldn’t accept the said positions.
If Pema Jungney and Lobsang Choejor had an iota of honor then they should have withdrawn their candidacy from the final rung of election.
If their resigning is because of guilt then they should instead stay on to right all the wrongs they have done to Tibetan democracy.
People shouldn’t ever forget Lobsang Sangay’s role in this evil plan as well. He is one of the main conspirators.
We are really thankful to Mr Pema Jungney for taking responsibility in the debacle at Chithue assembly to violating the constitution of Tibetan Government in exile. We are awaiting same responses from all other Chithues who voted to violate the constitution. If they failed to resign, we urge all voters to NEVER elect them again in the coming elections. BHOD GYAL LO.