Sherub Gyeltshen

Dasho Sherub Gyeltshen (Dzongkha: དྲག་ཤོས་ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན།; born c. 1955)[1][2] is a Bhutanese politician who has been Minister for Home and Cultural Affairs since November 2018.[3][1][4] He has been a member of the National Assembly of Bhutan since October 2018.

Lyonpo Sherub Gyeltshen
ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན།
Gyeltshen at Trumshingla pass
Minister for Home and Cultural Affairs
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 November 2018
Prime Minister	Lotay Tshering
Preceded by	Dawa Gyeltshen
Member of the National Assembly of Bhutan
Incumbent
Assumed office 31 October 2018
Preceded by	Jigme Zangpo
Constituency	Monggar
Vice President of Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 May 2018
Personal details
Born	c. 1955[1][2]
Political party	Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa
Alma mater	University of Punjab, India (BA in Political Science and Public Administration)[2]

Career

Gyeltshen worked with Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs for 11 years. On 24 April 1991, he was appointed as Dzongdag for Lhuntse District and also served as the Dzongdag for Samtse District and Thimphu District. He has also served as justice of High Court of Bhutan and also served as a Secretary of Dzongkha Development Commission.[5][1][2]

On 14 May 2018, Gyeltshen received 1,086 votes and was elected as the vice president of the Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT) just five months before the Third National Assembly Election.[6]

He was elected to the National Assembly of Bhutan in the 2018 elections for the Monggar constituency.[1] He received 3,763 votes and defeated Karma Lhamo, a candidate of DPT.[7]

On 3 November, Lotay Tshering formally announced his cabinet structure and Gyeltshen was named as the Minister for Home and Cultural Affairs.[1] On 7 November 2018, he was sworn in as Minister for Home and Cultural Affairs in the cabinet of Prime Minister Lotay Tshering.[8] On 27 August 2019, he was convicted by the Thimphu dzongkhag court for a false insurance claim.[9]

References

1. "Bhutan's Newly Elected Prime Minister Lotay Tshering Unveiled The 10 Cabinet Ministers On 3 November 2018". www.bhutantimes.com.
2. "Bhutan 2018 Elections". www.peldendrukpa.com.
3. "Gortsum Primary School". lhuentse.gov.bt. Royal Government of Bhutan.
4. "HM confers Dakyen to Cabinet ministers, Speaker, and OL – KuenselOnline". www.kuenselonline.com.
5. "Dasho Sherub Gyeltshen, Hon. Secretary for Dzongkha Development Commission superannuates - Royal Civil Service Commission". www.rcsc.gov.bt.
6. "DNT elects Dr. Lotay Tshering as President and Dasho Sherub Gyeltshen as Vice President". 14 May 2018.
7. Live election results Bhutan News Network
8. "PM Lotay Tshering's Cabinet inaugurated in Bhutan – United News of India". www.uniindia.com.
9. "Thimphu dzongkhag court convicts six, including home minister". Kuensel.