Financing parties
About a month ago Kuensel reported that DPT MPs had insisted that "... only state funding would save them from sinking under." And quoted Lyonpo Thakur Singh Powdyal as saying: "Given the experience of the party so far and the need to have a responsible and respectable political system in the country, it's desirable to have state support, because the existence and functioning of spolitical parties have critical implications on the health of the state." I'm amazed that DPT politicians continue to expect state funding for their party. After all, the first session of the parliament had decided that…