{"id":23299,"date":"2011-03-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/?p=23299"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T21:00:00","slug":"dalai-lama-to-resign-political-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2011\/03\/dalai-lama-to-resign-political-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalai Lama to resign political role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DHARAMSHALA, India, Mar 10 &#8211; The Dalai Lama announced Thursday his plan to retire as political head of the exiled Ticapitalfmnewn movement, saying the time had come for his replacement by a &quot;freely elected&quot; leader.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Dalai Lama, whose more significant role is as the movement\\&#8217;s spiritual leader, said he would seek an amendment allowing him to resign his political office when the exiled Ticapitalfmnewn parliament meets next week.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility,&quot; he said in an address in Dharamshala, the seat of the Ticapitalfmnewn government-in-exile in northern India.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It is to benefit Ticapitalfmnewns in the long run. It is not because I feel disheartened,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Dalai Lama was just 15 when he was appointed &quot;head of state&quot; in 1950 after Chinese troops moved into Tibet. He fled his homeland in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.<\/p>\n<p>The 75-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner has long talked of stepping down from what is a largely ceremonial role, while maintaining his more important position as the spiritual figurehead of the Ticapitalfmnewn movement.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;As early as the 1960s, I have repeatedly stressed that Ticapitalfmnewns need a leader, elected freely by the Ticapitalfmnewn people, to whom I can devolve power,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Now, we have clearly reached the time to put this into effect.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>In his address marking the anniversary of the 1959 uprising, the Dalai Lama made it clear that he would not be withdrawing from the political struggle and remained &quot;committed to playing my part in the just cause of Tibet.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Despite his advancing age and several health scares, the Dalai Lama maintains a punishing travel schedule as the global face of the Ticapitalfmnewn struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Spiritual and secular loyalty to his leadership is steadfast and he is the adhesive that binds together the various factions within the movement, some of whom favour a more radical agenda than the Dalai Lama\\&#8217;s non-violent campaign for autonomy within the Chinese state.<\/p>\n<p>In Thursday\\&#8217;s speech, the Dalai Lama said he had received &quot;repeated and earnest&quot; appeals from inside and outside Tibet to provide continued political leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The London-based International Campaign for Tibet said the Dalai Lama\\&#8217;s announcement underlined his democratic credentials.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;In contrast to those long-serving autocrats who have been much in the news, the Dalai Lama is the rare visionary who is willingly divesting power to his people,&quot; said ICT president Mary Beth Markey.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;His decision, based on the maturation of Ticapitalfmnewn democracy in exile, deserves both accolades and support,&quot; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHARAMSHALA, India, Mar 10 &#8211; The Dalai Lama announced Thursday his plan to retire as political head of the exiled Ticapitalfmnewn movement, saying the time had come for his replacement by a &quot;freely elected&quot; leader. 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