First Round of 2011 campaign at Kollegal Tibetan Settlement

Mr. Chime Youngdung, the President of NDPT and office assistant Mr.Youten reached Kollegal settlement on 27th May and immediately held meeting with the heads of 22 camps representatives.Meeting with Kollegal Tibetan people started on 28th May 2010, which begin from camp block vice-1st block D and ended at block Q village community hall. Where around 60-70 people came and mostly it was around 75 to 80 people. The actual meeting started with the introduction of President by the Chief of Kollegal village. Then Mr. Chime la started his speech to public on the importance of voting and the significances of year 2011.        

 And like before the talk was on same thing;

·         He gave talk on democracy and on practical dramatic example like Indian politics which we can see all the time.

• He also mentioned about the survey made by TIMES news paper regarding Tibetan after His Holiness the Dalai Lama's death.
• He told people how important it is to have a bicameral legislation in our community and why we need it. All the democratic nations and developed countries have bicameral legislation, in order to help the nation to develop.
• Regarding our nominees for the kalon Tripa and especially members of parliament. Since Chithue nominees are large in number, and many people have different ideas, opinions and views which differ from each individual on the nominees. But he warned among the people that they shouldn't be influence by anyone who comments on any of Chithue nominees. All they have to do is a little research by the people.
• Public might not like one of NDPT nominees from the list but people shouldn't decide at once that every nominee is same like the one he/she doesn't like. Every candidate is different and has different intellectual and potential.
• He interprets the importance on the rights of voting which is one of top priority under democracy.
• Democracy is considered right way to lead the nation by everyone because in democracy there is participation of people either in directly and indirectly.
• Then he came back to the main point and he related the reason for visiting to Kollegal settlement and he made introduction of two Kalon Tripa nominees and members of parliament.
• Mr. Chime la briefly given an introduction of NDPT's two prominent Kalon Tripa nominees and their bio-datas to public for better understanding.
• In terms of Chithue, the endorsed candidates should regard two conditions of NDPT. It clearly mentioned that NDPT support only those nominees who finalized in supporting democracy in Tibetan society.
• Later he told the differences between NGOs and political party, whereas every Tibetans thinks that both political party and NGOs are the same. So he made a very clear interpretation on it.

 These are few main topics that he gave talk on, the speech lasted for 1 hour and people were really motivated at that time. Later on the questions and answers session and also feed back or suggestion from the people was taken place. The few question/suggestions were like;

1.    We have to study the root cause of people not voting, and we have to give an advices to college students and those of who are young and educated so that they would take part in voting.

2.    People asked whom they should prefer for Kalon Tripa, the one who is more experience and one who is energetic.

3.    Most of youth compliant that in our society democracy is not well established since peoples' participation is lacking behind. And student in colleges and university couldn't take part in election because of stiff rules.

Like these there were few discussion and debates. By 11:16 a.m. meeting is concluded. We have distributed the posters to chief to stick around.