JACSON DRUKPA AS PERSON

I am a naturalist and my understanding about life surrounds around nature. It is easier for me to know when trees shed their leaves and when wild animals breed for speciation to continue than other things in life. Thus, outside nature what I write is all amateurish and they don’t necessarily make greater sense. However, if any one ever read this note, it is about how Jackson Drukpa is better than many others in the political fray or in the affairs of human life. This guy intrigues me beyond my subjects which I seriously studied at the training Institutes, Colleges and Universities. As such, I find him very interesting and enterprising. I for one would not mind giving him a chance to be politician at whatever levels, the national council, national assembly, Throemdheys or even the local government. However, to keep away critics who might suspect my connection with him and who might assume that I am popularizing Jackson Drukpa, I wish to clarify three things.

First, the readers of this very article must understand that Jackson Drukpa is not my close friend or a relative. We first met at Kolkata when both of our wives had to undergo treatment at the same hospital and attended to our wives together, shared meals and stayed in the same (building for once) colony in the neighbourhood apartments. When people suffer, we get to see their true colours and it is down there that I saw the guy to be really big-hearted, complementary, persevering, helpful and hard working. He does not see class, levels and boundaries in the society where more respect is given to people with wealth, position and good looks. Therefore, what I write about him is not to promote him, neither to make him famous, which he already thinks he is, and I believe he is, but to note what type of person he is by calling spade a spade. This note will also serve as a record about how I feel about him. It is simple and straight forward. I just want to record what I feel about him, nothing more.

Secondly, Jackson does not make any sense to many as much as to Election Commission of Bhutan who had to reject his party registration. If many don’t see him credible, then why would I? However, I must confess that by looking at his activities, he is one guy with lots of humanely ideas. Have a closer look. It is worth seeing him in detail. What he thinks is pure and serene. No one can instigate or manipulate his thoughts. We should be looking at him as a social leader if it is not about political leadership. When we put up together down there in the same building at the Kolkata's New Town’s Soosoo Gardens, he and his wife moved out to a next building which was bit cheaper than the one we put together with the same facilities. Not because they could not afford but Jackson was perhaps exploring better place for his wife at reasonable rates. Besides, I saw him visiting all the sick people living around the hospital on rented apartments and the supposedly Guest House provided by some kind rich people but not worth living with diseases that are already life threatening. I remember him lamenting the kind of rooms many of our sick people were putting in and was regretting about his inability to support them although he wanted to. He would often buy few edible things for the sick people and escorts and visit them as and when his wife allowed him to move out. He once told me that he would like to run a charity home down there for terminally ill people from Bhutan. But without resources, his idea has remained a dream. I wish someone takes his idea seriously. If I had authority to certify how humane people are, I would first certify Jackson Drukpa and I mean it. I have seen him well through the problematic phase of his life and I saw such a nice person in him. I know I have no bragging rights about him, and I don’t mind even if you (my readers) don’t believe me like many of you who can’t believe Jackson Drukpa and even try to stop him from forming a political party, an infringement to his basic rights to go ahead with whatever one can within the constitutional framework. Some people criticize him heavily in the social media and I see him giving befitting replies. 

Thirdly, besides my admiration for his humanely actions and thoughts, I am not his fan at all and readers of this note (if any) must not connect me to him and conclude that we are friends and that positive things are being written about him to make him popular. Further, I do not intend to cling to his popularity (he believes he is popular and rightly so) for any gain of sort. I just want to put things straight and express what I feel about him after thorough scrutiny about what he is doing as a common citizen. It is worth mentioning here that I have seen many people following his posts in the social media which vividly indicate he has followers, either good or bad. Good followers alone is not good, we need even the bad followers. So, Jackson moves on.

Jackson Drukpa aka Chheku Drukpa

With this background, let me give a few reasons why Jackson Drukpa must be given a chance to be a political or social leader. For the sake of introduction, Jackson studied bachelor’s in civil engineering from Motilal Nehru Engineering College in India and Masters in Transportation Engineering at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. Otherwise, I don’t think I should write his biography since everything about him is available online, free and transparent. I must rather focus on what type of person he is. 

He is very much one of us, common, simple and down to earth. Thus, trying him for a leadership wouldn’t be a mistake any way. He has everything (quality, qualification and interest) required to enter politics, including the humane factor which is more important than other conditions. However, his modern approach to politics seem to receive only a lukewarm support due to the classical and medieval outlook of most of the people here. Otherwise, Bhutan can seriously experiment him. Coming from a small village in Nanong, then Trashigang but now Pema Gatshel due to political delimitation boundaries, Jackson Drukpa knows what things happen in the remote villages like many of us who belong to rural Bhutan. So, he understands what to do where, why and how. Why shouldn’t we try him for once and let him be a leader. We should put him in the centre and test or taste him at least once. Who knows he might give us the best. He talks so. 

One important aspect of the guy is seriously trying to form a political party. He wrote the party charter all alone and sought the opinion of the people interested in his ideas through the social media. Even naming of the party was done through votes in the Facebook. When an individual with a different dream like him can do all these, I see no reason for us not to support his maverick ideas. He worked day and night to establish a dream political party while most of us did not give a serious thought other than a handful of youths who saw some vision in his political ideas. All the while, we must remember that he did all his party stuff without any funding which is another aspect of man with determination who see some scope to bring changes in the society. Do we have reasons not to put him in the forefront?

Ask him about why he wants to have a new party while he can very well join an existing party and represent his constituency. He will tell you that his party idea is different from others and that other parties are not his like. And we know for every major issue, be it unemployment, pledges of political parties, international issues, development, education, etc., he has something unique and prompt to comment and challenge the decisions with good reasons. To confirm what I mean in this paragraph about how he challenges certain decisions of the government body or institutions, you can follow his timeline in Facebook which he uses as platform to express his displeasure and pleasantries. To be brutally honest, I find his arguments reasonable every time he puts forth. Thus, Bhutan can give a thought about this guy in the coming years.

He sings in the Drayangs, Karaokes in the Entertainment Halls, dances on the roads and people seem to judge him. Many classic people think that the leaders should not do such things, but he thinks otherwise. He once told me that he lives on his own terms; free, relaxing and impromptu  and not under anyone’s compulsion. He really believes in letting people do what they like. That’s why he sings songs composed by himself or that of others with passion and we can see him doing from time to time in the social media, Entertainment Places and homes. And I think he is right. Why shouldn’t a leader sing a song, dance or compose raps and show them out in the media? Are the leaders not human beings? I see some people making fun of him in the media when he posts video recordings of himself with Drayang and entertaining girls as if the girls there have no human dignity. What if you are the girls working there? Let’s have some respects to the struggling girls who work in Drayang and let’s help them be better like Jackson does from time to time by visiting them. Let’s just not look down at them. I strongly feel that if we have twenty percent of the population thinking like Jackson, Bhutan would be different. Therefore, let’s try Jackson in the near future.

Of many discussions about Jackson Drukpa in the social media, one thing about how and why he is so handsome caught my attention. Many youths seem to like him by the way they are following him. However, we must agree that like any normal people like you and me, he has his own limitations, weaknesses and strengths. I think that’s absolutely normal. He enjoys everything normal people enjoy (I hope he will not beat me up) and of course talks a lot about his party pledges, failures and successes and about all his popular ideas. Looks like a good number of opposite gender dream about sleeping with him (hahaha, he will surely beat me) stealthily and sneakily since he has wife (this is with light heart and is not at all true).  He is of course not a Bachelor. Jokes aside, as much as people find him handsome, his ideas and thoughts are handsome. So, where is the question of not supporting the guy in the near future.

A week ago, I landed up at his second home below the Clock Tower with my friends. As friends we were there to see him and request him not to go too much social in his Facebook pages and others with his new ideas that do not go well with classical senior citizens. But it turned out otherwise, he scolded and clearly told us not to intervene with what he is doing. He told us to mind our business and we had to shut our mouths. But under the influence of some drinks, one of our friends reminded him of how he did not respond to calls and how he remained low when his party was denied registration. Seriously though, we know he took the case to the courts for denying registration. Whatever it is, I tell you he is more humane than many of us. I see this in him. So, let's go with him next.

After few rounds of whiskey, I could not resist my closing eyes and fell asleep on the floor where he sits, sings and posts few things and I realized only when the future prime minister of Bhutan pushing under my head a pillow and covering the rest of body with his gho as quilt. Since where we visited is his second home where he works, nothing better can be expected. He is humane.

This is Jackson Drukpa I know, and he should be tried as our leader since he talks all positive about anything. Let us try him in the future. There are no reasons not to support him... let us go!

 

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