Dharamsala, August 4 – The Vice President of the largest Tibetan Non Governmental Organization has resigned from his post after participants at the organization’s 14th General Body Meeting, by way of majority, called for his resignation.
The first day of the TYC’s General Body Meeting lasted nearly ten hours on Monday as the members from TYC’s various regional chapters brainstormed over the matter of Vice President Dhondup Dorjee’s ouster from his post by the Executive Committee for his email that prompted the American Embassy in New Delhi to cancel Visa of members of the TYC who were to hold a hunger strike at the UN Building in New York starting February 25 this year. The hunger strike campaign had to be eventually called off.
However, the participants at the meeting also pointed out that the TYC executive committee has breached the constitution of the TYC by using a power beyond their right to sack Dhondup Dorjee on February 8, 2010.
Rifts within the working of the organization’s central executive members, both during the previous and current executive body have put the exile NGO that China accuses of being a “terrorist outfit” in murky waters, sources within the group say.
TYC is the largest NGO of the exile Tibetan Diaspora seeking complete independence for Tibet, a radical position than that of the ‘middle way approach’ proposed by the Dalai Lama and adopted as an official policy by the Tibetan government in exile.
At the end of the seven-day meeting, the members will elect the organization’s new executive members.
Elected for a term of three years, the executive body, called the Central Executive Committee (CENTREX), supervises the entire functioning of TYC, provides guidance to the ‘Regional Working Committees’ and represents TYC in all national and international forums.
The GBM, held every three years, is the highest policy making body of the Tibetan Youth Congress and it alone is empowered to amend the organization’s written Constitution.
