{"id":292636,"date":"2024-04-23T19:51:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T14:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=292636"},"modified":"2024-04-23T19:51:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T14:21:26","slug":"india-and-maldives-relations-after-muizzus-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-and-maldives-relations-after-muizzus-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"India and Maldives relations, after Muizzu\u2019s re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> This post <strong>India and Maldives relations, after Muizzu\u2019s re-election<\/strong> is created based on the article \u2018<strong>Muizzu\u2019s win, India\u2019s pragmatism<\/strong>\u2019, published in <strong>Indian Express<\/strong> on 23<sup>rd<\/sup> April 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPSC Syllabus Topic<\/strong> \u2013 GS paper 2 \u2013 International Relations \u2013 India and its neighborhood<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has won the recent elections, with huge number of seats. It will provide him with the power to make all the major legal and legislative changes.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What anti-India steps have been taken by Muizzu?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>One of the pillars of Muizzu&#8217;s politics is an anti-India stance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First, <\/strong>he campaigned on an &#8220;India Out&#8221; theme, asked for withdrawal of Indian troops,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second, <\/strong>he scrapped agreements allowing Indian hydrographic surveys by India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third, <\/strong>he has drawn Maldives closer to China, by giving them infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n<p>However, the parliamentary elections were fought on domestic issues like corruption, economy, housing, jobs and shifting political alliances rather than foreign policy issues. Therefore, it should not be taken as a country\u2019s stand.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What has been India\u2019s approach to Muizzu\u2019s anti-India Stance?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>First, <\/strong>India has done well not to overreact to Maldives&#8217; attempts to distance itself and treat it with a soft approach, recognizing a neighbour\u2019s domestic politics is their own affair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second, <\/strong>Maldives is an important part of India\u2019s <strong>Neighbourhood First and SAGAR policies<\/strong>. Given Maldives&#8217; proximity and importance, India must continue engaging with the country no matter the government to make bilateral ties &#8220;politics proof&#8221; in the long run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: This post India and Maldives relations, after Muizzu\u2019s re-election is created based on the article \u2018Muizzu\u2019s win, India\u2019s pragmatism\u2019, published in Indian Express on 23rd April 2024. UPSC Syllabus Topic \u2013 GS paper 2 \u2013 International Relations \u2013 India and its neighborhood News: Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has won the recent elections, with huge&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-and-maldives-relations-after-muizzus-re-election\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India and Maldives relations, after Muizzu\u2019s re-election<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500,239],"class_list":["post-292636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","tag-international-relations","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}