Apex court rules Tibetan-Canadian citizen ineligible to vote or contest from India-Nepal-Bhutan

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Tenzin Nyidon 

DHARAMSHALA, Oct. 21: A three-judge bench of the Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission (TSJC), the apex judicial body of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), on Wednesday issued its final judgment in Case No. 23, ruling that the plaintiff, Tenzin Khedup, had failed to establish his eligibility as a resident of Lugsam Tibetan Settlement in Bylakuppe, Karnataka, under the laws and regulations governing Tibetans in exile, rendering him ineligible to contest or vote in elections for representatives of Tibet’s three traditional provinces or religious traditions in India, Nepal and Bhutan.

The case centred on Khedup’s challenge to his exclusion from contesting the 2026 Tibe...

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