Damcho Dorji (born ) is a

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ese politician who served as Home Minister and

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, in Tobgay cabinet from August 2013 to 2018.

Early life and education

Born in Khailo,

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in 1965, Dorji studied at

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High School and undertook his undergraduate studies at

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. He did his LL.B. from Government Law College in

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and LL.M. from

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He also did a PG Diploma in International Law and Organization for Development from the Institute for Social Studies (ISS) in the Netherlands.

Career

Damcho Dorji was appointed as the judge of Gelephu Court from 2000-2002. He was judge of Mongar District Court in 2002, Wangduephodrang District Court from 2003-2005, Punakha District Court in 2006. He was transferred as the Director of the Office of Legal Affairs in 2006. In 2006 Dorji was appointed as the first Attorney General of Bhutan. Damcho Dorji is a member of the

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and was first elected to the

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in the 2008 elections for the Khatoed Laya constituency and was one of the two members of the first Opposition Party in the first democratic Parliament of Bhutan. . Following his reelection in the 2013 elections, Dorji was appointed as the Minister for Home and Cultural Affairs in 2013 by Prime Minister

Tshering Tobgay Tshering Tobgay ( dz, ཚེ་རིང་སྟོབས་རྒྱས།; born 19 September 1965) is a Bhutanese politician, environmentalist, and cultural advocate who was the List of Prime Ministers of Bhutan, Prime Minister of Bhutan from J ...

. In August 2015, he took over as

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following the resignation of Rinzin Dorji over corruption charges.

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Early life and education

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