“How the invisible hand of Modi’s diplomacy dealt with anti-India Maldives regime”, First Post, January 8, 2024:
“If you are an island, it is easy to feel that no one is watching you and no arm can reach you. An increasingly Islamised Maldives society and its new, pro-China government kept regaling in that misplaced feeling of insulation.
But its closest neighbour, Bharat, has been watching it all this while. Several politicians in Malé, including the current President Mohamed Muizzu of the People’s National Congress (PNC), centred their campaigns on India hate. They sported red T-shirts with ‘Go Back India’ and ‘India Out’ written on them.
Soon after coming to power, Muizzu’s government asked India to withdraw the 77 military personnel who operate two helicopters and an aircraft provided by India to the Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) for emergency medical evacuations and disaster relief operations…..”
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