Ahmed Naish
A recent Washington Post report alleged an India-backed plot to impeach Maldives President Dr Mohamed Muizzu. However, the Muizzu government’s response to the bombshell exposé has been rather reticent.
According to the Post report, which was published on December 30, in early 2024, Indian intelligence agents plotted with leaders of the main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) to impeach newly-elected President Muizzu. The report cited internal documents, surveillance records, and interviews with key Indian and Maldivian sources.
After secret talks with agents working for India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), MDP politicians sought $6 million from India to bribe 40 parliamentarians as well as 10 senior army and police officers and three powerful criminal gangs, according to a RAW document titled “Democratic Renewal Initiative.”
The Indian government ultimately “did not pursue or finance an attempt to oust [Muizzu].” But the aborted plot offered “a rare view into the much broader, often shadowy struggle between India and China for influence over a strategic swath of Asia and its surrounding waters,” the Post observed.
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