The Maldivian government has decided to lift the state of emergency.
What happened in Maldives?
Recently the Supreme Court of Maldives ordered to release many jailed opposition leaders, Maldives government has openly refused to comply the judgement.
Contrarily Maldives administration has declared a state of emergency for and government forces have also taken over the Supreme Court complex.
Maldivian administration has ordered the arrest of two judges, as well as hundreds of activists and politicians including former President Abdul Gayoom, and imposed a state of emergency.
During emergency certain rights had been restricted and general movements, services and businesses has not been much affected.Click here to know more
What was the recent decision on emergency?
The ruling Maldives administration under President Abdulla Yameen has lifted the emergency declared 45days earlier.
The opposition parties believe that the emergency was lifted only because present administration has established total control over the judiciary and parliament.
Therefore, it is supposed that lifting the emergency does not automatically amount to status quo ante.
What is the status of Indo-Maldivian ties?
After the announcement of emergency India made a public statements of disapproval on the emergency for which Male has reacted India’s statements of disapproval were “not helpful at all”.
Recently India made a statement that the withdrawal of the emergency is “one step”, and much more must be done to restore democracy in the Maldives.
Even this statement of India has been unwelcomed by Maldives claiming that the events of the past couple of months were “internal political matters”.
With military exchanges, a free trade agreement with China and a slew of Chinese infrastructure investments in place, the ruling government clearly considers itself sufficiently insulated from any counter-moves by India.
In this regard India has been wise to keep its counsel and not over-react to the recent events.
