Dasho Dasho ( Dzongkha: དྲག་ཤོས; Wylie: ''Drag-shos'') (lit. Excellent One) is a Bhutanese honorific that is bestowed upon individuals, along with a red scarf kabney A kabney ( Dzongkha: བཀབ་ནེ་; Wylie: ''bkab-ne'') is a ...

Sherub Gyeltshen ( dz, དྲག་ཤོས་ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན།; born ) is a

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountai ...

ese politician who served as the Minister for Home and Cultural Affairs from November 2018 to 6 May 2021 when he resigned. He was a member of the

National Assembly of Bhutan The National Assembly is the elected lower house of Bhutan's bicameral Parliament which also comprises the Druk Gyalpo (Dragon King) and the National Council. It is the more powerful house. Current National Assembly The current National ...

from October 2018 to May 6, 2021.

Career

Gyeltshen worked with

Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs The Bhutanese Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs ( Dzongkha: ནང་སྲིད་དང་སྲོལ་འཛིན་ལྷན་ཁག་; Wylie: ''nang-srid(-dang srol-'dzin) lhan-khag''; "Nangsi Lhenkhag") is the government ministry ...

for 11 years. On 24 April 1991, he was appointed as

Dzongdag The Bhutan, Kingdom of Bhutan is divided into 20 districts (Dzongkha: ). Bhutan is located between the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and India on the eastern slopes of the Himalayas in South Asia. are the primary subdivisions of Bhutan. T ...

for

Lhuntse District Lhuntse District ( Dzongkha: ལྷུན་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Lhun-rtse rdzong-khag''; previously "Lhuntshi") is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan. It consists of 2506 households. Located in the n ...

and also served as the Dzongdag for

Samtse District Samtse District ( Dzongkha: བསམ་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Bsam-rtse rdzong-khag''; older spelling "Samchi") is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. It comprises two subdistricts (''dungkhags''): ...

and

Thimphu District Thimphu District ( Dzongkha: ཐིམ་ཕུ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Thim-phu rdzong-khag'') is a dzongkhag (district) of Bhutan. Thimphu is also the capital of Bhutan and the largest city in the whole kingdom. Languages T ...

. He has also served as justice of

High Court of Bhutan The High Court of Bhutan derives its authority from the 2008 Constitution of Bhutan. It consists of the Chief Justice and eight Drangpons ( Associate Justices). The Chief Justice and Drangpons of the High Court are appointed from among juniors, ...

and also served as a Secretary of

Dzongkha Development Commission The Dzongkha Development Commission (), also called the DDC, is the pre-eminent body on matters pertaining to the Dzongkha language. The DDC was officially established in 1986 by Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the fourth king of Bhutan, to preserve and ...

. On 14 May 2018, Gyeltshen received 1,086 votes and was elected as the vice president of the

Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa ( dz, འབྲུག་མཉམ་རུབ་ཚོགས་པ།; Wylie: ''’brug nyam-rub tshogs-pa''; ), formerly the Social Democratic Party, is one of the five registered political parties in Bhutan. It was regist ...

(DNT) just five months before the Third National Assembly Election. He was elected to the

in the 2018 elections for the Monggar constituency. He received 3,763 votes and defeated

Karma Lhamo Karma Lhamo (born 6 May 1978) is a Bhutanese educator and politician. She was elected to the National Assembly in 2008, becoming one of its first female members elected under universal suffrage. Biography Lhamo was born in Tshakaling in May 1978 ...

, a candidate of

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. On 3 November,

Lotay Tshering Lotay Tshering ( dz, བློ་གྲོས་ཚེ་རིང་; born 10 May 1969) is a Bhutanese politician and surgeon who is the current Prime Minister of Bhutan, in office since 7 November 2018. He has also been the president of Druk ...

formally announced his cabinet structure and Gyeltshen was named as the Minister for Home and Cultural Affairs. On 7 November 2018, he was sworn in as Minister for Home and Cultural Affairs in the cabinet of Prime Minister Lotay Tshering. On 27 August 2019, he was convicted by the Thimphu dzongkhag court for a false insurance claim.

References

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