Dharamshala: Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama has decided to step down as political head of the exiled Tibetan movement
He announced his plane on Thursday, saying time had come for his replacement by a “freely elected” leader .
The Dalai Lama, whose role is that of the movement’s spiritual leader, said he would seek an amendment allowing him to resign his political responsibilities at the next session of the exiled Tibetan parliament in March.
“As early as the 1960s, I have repeatedly stressed that Tibetans need a leader, elected freely by the Tibetan people, to whom I can devolve power,” the Dalai Lama said in a prepared speech. “Now, we have clearly reached the time to put this into effect.”
“My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility,” he said in an address in Dharamshala, the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile in northern India.
“It is to benefit Tibetans in the long run. It is not because I feel disheartened,” he added.
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