Recent friendly developments between India and Maldives surprised many Indian and World geopolitical expert. Some expert are still crusious why Maldives tones suddenly changed just after few months. What is reason behind that? Lets find out the real fact.
India and Maldives relation after President Muizzu victory in his election
India and Maldives relation became worst after victory of Muizzu as a president of Island nation. He won the election behind “India Out” campaign. After victory he decided that no any Indian foreign soldiers will be placed inside Maldives and they give to Indian government a fixed time to replace their troops to expert Indian people.
Another a big incident occur, when Indian Prime Minister visit Lakshadweep and share some picture of that beautiful Island, some Maldives minister become unhappy about these post and shared some un-appropriate comment on Prime Minister Modi. After such worst incident Indian and Maldives became unfriendly to each other and started bad comment to each side on social media platform.
Indian Foreign Spoke-person loaded strong protest against Maldives ambassador and summon them. Some day later Maldives foreign spoke-person released a statement on the issue and suspend ministers behind that.
Maldives Debt Problems
Maldives debt are on high. Previous Maldives government has taken so much Chinese loan from XI-Jinping led government and that create so much burden on current Maldives government. According to World Bank, Island nation Maldives owes loan of China around $1.37 billion, adding up to 40% of the country’s public debt.
Indian government had helped so many previous time to Maldives in crisis, and provide so much relief to island’s people. Current government known well about this, and so why Muizzu led government want make Indian government happy by closing ties with Modi government.
Recent Indian Foreign minister Jaishankar visit to Maldives
Dr. s. Jaishankar recent visit to Maldives shows distance between India and Maldives are no longer. Upon reaches on Island nation Jaishankar tweet on X and said that “Maldives occupies an important place in our vision of Neighbourhood First & SAGAR policy.
After arrival they meet with foreign minister of Maldives and discussion so many agenda including development partnership, bilateral and regional security, capacity building, trade and digital cooperation. They also launched UPI system in Island nation to promoting Indian tourists.
Later on day, they also meet with president of Maldives and shared a tweet on X and said that “Privileged to call on President Mohamed Muizzu. Conveyed greetings of PM Modi. Committed to deepen India-Maldives ties for the benefit of our people and the region.
Later after President Muizze also shared a post on X and said that ” It was a pleasure to meet Dr. s. Jaishankar today and join him in the official handover of water and sewerage projects in 28 islands of the Maldives. I thank the Government of India, especially Prime Minister Narendra Modi for always supporting the Maldives. Our enduring partnership continues to strength, bringing our nations closer through cooperation in security, development, and cultural exchange. Together, we build a brighter, more prosperous future for the region”.
These indication shows that India and Maldives are becoming back to right path to development of their respective country and want to stay away from bad politicos. Some third country want to break these friendship for their own benefits but that will never be true in even future between both nations.