After the general election in the Maldives, Muiz won a majority of seats, and at the beginning of his tenure, he took the lead in attacking Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
As India's general election approaches, Modi is seeking a third re-election. In the face of the Maldives' attack, how will Modi save himself, and what is the mainland's attitude towards this?
Open calling
In August 2023, under the attention of many countries, the presidential election of the Maldives came to an end, and it was Muiz, the leader of the People's National Congress Party, who finally won the presidential seat.
The first thing the president did when he took office was to make his attitude clear to India.
Because the Maldives is located in the Indian Ocean and chokes the throat of the Strait of Malacca to the Indian Ocean, its geographical position is very dangerous, and it has always been shrouded in India's sphere of influence.
Since the beginning of the last century, the president of the Maldives has existed in name only, but in fact he is nothing more than a puppet of India to control the domestic situation in the Maldives, and must unconditionally obey the demands of the Indian government.
The previous president had agreed to India's construction of a military port in the Maldives without the permission of the National Assembly, resulting in the gradual loss of military sovereignty in the Maldives after the political defeat.
In this regard, the Maldivian people dare not speak out.
After coming to power, Muiz sternly accused India of violating the military sovereignty of the Maldives, arguing that India's presence of troops without the consent of the parliament and the Maldivian people was tantamount to aggression.
And the Indian government is dismissive of his attitude.
The Indian side has made a high-profile claim that the reason why it is stationed in the Maldives is that it is explicitly stipulated in the shipbuilding agreement signed between the two countries and is allowed within the scope of law.
India's move is clearly a conceptual change in an attempt to whitewash its aggression in the name of legitimacy.
Muiz refused to be fooled at all, and he followed the attitude of the Indian authorities to say that since the Indian side has no intention of invading the Maldives, now that the shipbuilding agreement has been carried out more than halfway, he hopes that by May 10, 2024, all Indian troops will be withdrawn from the Maldives.
India never dreamed that it would be stabbed by the president of the Maldives after decades of hegemony in South Asia.
The reason why the President of the Maldives dares to openly argue with India is that Muiz attaches great importance to friendly relations with China and especially agrees with the principle of China's peace and development.
On January 30, 2024, Muiz made his first foreign trip to China after coming to power. But it's not like India is out of the question.
Because after the presidential election in the Maldives, there is another crucial link – the parliamentary elections.
In other words, if the party does not have a majority of seats in the parliament, it is very likely that the parliament will reject all the president's decrees.
In just a few months since Muiz came to power, India has secretly instructed parliament to give him a lot of stumbling blocks.
So India has staked all its hopes for the Maldives in the parliamentary elections in April this year.
However, as the election finally came to an end, the result was unexpected, and Muiz won a parliamentary majority, reforming a leadership team that was completely at his disposal.
This means that the Maldives will no longer be under the control of India from now on.
It was only then that India finally felt panicked.
Of course, the most panicked in India is Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Embattled
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi can also be regarded as a super long standby in the political arena, with gray hair, and wants to seek a third re-election as prime minister.
It is true that during his first two terms of office, he did lead India to break the 1.4 billion population mark and become the world's most populous country, using the demographic dividend to vigorously develop the domestic economy and make India a hegemon in South Asia.
However, with the ever-changing international situation, the demographic dividend is no longer a priority competitiveness, and the Indian economy has experienced a brief boom and then quickly declined.
The huge gap between prosperity and decline has caused strong discontent among the people in the country.
They believe that Modi is no longer capable of taking charge of India. Initially, this was just the idea of some Indian operators.
However, as inflation sweeps the world, a huge economic bubble is hitting all walks of life, and the living standards of ordinary people in India continue to decline, and the money that used to be able to buy meat and eggs is now not even able to buy bread.
Even Indians are beginning to question Modi's abilities.
As a result, from the bottom up, opposition to Modi in India is getting louder and louder.
Modi's years in power in India have not been so smooth.
Now that things are not working, these parties, which were once targeted and suppressed by undercover agents, have united and formed an anti-Modi coalition.
Seeing that his approval rating is getting lower and lower, Modi has a headache about this.
At this time, the bad news came, and Moiz, who had publicly argued with him, sat firmly in the first place in the Maldives, and after the inability of domestic affairs, Modi's diplomatic ability was also questioned in all aspects.
This puts his already declining approval ratings in jeopardy.
In order to salvage the wise image of his ruler, Modi began to frantically save himself. In addition to using various means, Modi also cleverly intends to confiscate all the funds for the activities of the opposition party. At the same time, he used the domestic public opinion at his disposal to elevate himself.
However, the more the people's anger is suppressed, the more unfair it becomes, and Modi's combination punch is exposed.
More and more Indians are questioning him, and if Modi really has a clear conscience, why bother to exclude dissidents?
Modi believes that Muiz's biggest reliance is nothing more than China, so India must use concrete actions to show the Maldives that India is strong!
India's Ministry of Defence quickly sent troops to the border, gathering 10,000 people to wait for the day, while Modi personally visited the disputed section of the border to personally hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the tunnel.
In addition to this, India has also deployed drones and a large number of air defense forces on the Sino-Indian border, which seems to be flexing its muscles against China.
Far from causing fear among Muiz, the move has exacerbated border friction between the two countries.
Of course, in response to India's military action, the Chinese side hopes that India will maintain reason and restraint and stop its behavior that continues to exacerbate regional contradictions.
China hopes that India will be able to express its demands through peaceful negotiations.
China's response is neither humble nor arrogant, and it has directly poured cold water on the ambition of the goal, and whether Modi can be re-elected for a third time will be known in June this year.