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‘Election’ is an appetizing word in the lexicon of democracy. The youngest democracy in Bhutan is observing rounds and rounds of election for the second time. How much egalitarian is the system imposed by the 4 th king His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuk is coming into test.   Beginning from the registration of the voters to the formation of the house of parliaments, the democracy in Bhutan follows different levels of control and scrutiny. The National Assembly election, for the second time, commences on 31 May 2013 and the result will be known the next day after submitting it to the king. But this election is only a primary round of the 2 nd phase. The final round, which is called the general election poll day, is scheduled for 13 th July 2013 . As the 1 st phase, the election for the National Council, was held on 23rd April 2013 . In this, one candidate from each of the twenty districts got elected. They were then joined by five more candidat

  On 6th March 2013 the king of Bhutan posed for a photo (see BBS foto below)  with the group of polity- the government machinery that rulled the country for the first five years of elected government- March 2008 to April 2013.  Although it was called democratic on the ground of election and in comparison to the previous absolute monarchy, this group of rulers never discussed to allow the exiled Bhutanese Lhotshampa minorities from the UNHCR refugee camps in Nepal.  This machinery was also bent to drive these refugees further in the same way the absolute monarchy of His Majesty King Jigme Syngye Wangchuk did previously, although they had ten sessions of parliamentary meetings. In this regard, the government run by the prime minister Jigme Yoeser Thinlay was no better than the absolute monarchy since, it also violated the rights of the people and the international norms, the right to return home. About 30 000 refugees are still in the refugee camps in Nepal while other 1