Overseas Tibetans not eligible to run for exile parliament elections as religious/provincial candidates without transfer of residence

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(TibetanReview.net, Oct22’26) – The election rules of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) provides for one set of constituencies and rules for Tibetans living India, Nepal and Bhutan and another set for those living in other countries, based on their residential status, for standing as candidates, as well as voting, in the Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE) elections. And it debars eligible Tibetans from one set of constituencies from voting or standing for election in the other set for obvious reasons. But what if a Tibetan is a Canadian citizen, having previously migrated there, but has been living in India for some three years under the latter’s Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) permit system?

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