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Former President of Maldives and opposition party leader, Mohammed Nasheed has rejected the conspiracy to bring impeachment against President Mohammed Muizzu and India’s role in it.
In fact, on Monday, American newspaper The Washington Post had claimed in its report that the opposition had hatched a conspiracy to remove Muizzu from the post. For this, help of Rs 51 crore was to be sought from India.
On this report, Nasheed said that he was not aware of any such conspiracy and India would never support such a conspiracy. He said that India would never take such a step, as it always supports the democracy of Maldives. India never imposed conditions on us.
Mohammad Muizzu had launched India Out campaign against India during the presidential elections.
Claim- There was a plan to bribe 40 MPs
The Washington Post has claimed that it has some documents named Democratic Renewal Initiative. There is a plan to remove Muizzu from power. According to the report, a plan was made to bribe 40 MPs to remove Muizzu from power. Among them are MPs from Muizzu’s party.
According to the report, apart from the MPs, a plan was also made to give money to 10 senior officers of the army and police and some criminal gangs. According to the report, the conspirators had demanded Rs 51 crore for this.
The Washington Post quoted two Maldivian officials as saying that this amount was to be demanded from India.
The first meeting between Prime Minister Modi and President Moizzu took place during the COP 28 conference held in December 2023.
Claim of role of intelligence agency RAW
The Washington Post claimed in its report that a senior officer of India’s intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) had talked about the plan to remove Muizzu from the post of President.
The Washington Post claimed to have been given some of the recordings by a member of Muizzu’s family. In these, there is a record of a conversation between a senior intelligence officer of RAW and other Indian mediators regarding the removal of Muizzu from the post.
According to the report, these mediators included a former Indian police officer Shirish Thorat and Savio Rodrigues, a Goa-based publisher and former BJP spokesperson. There were talks between all of them in Washington on this issue in January.
However, the Washington Post also made it clear that even after months of secret negotiations, there was no success in gathering enough MPs to impeach Muizzu. India also did not advance the effort to remove Muizzu from office nor did it provide funds.
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