{"id":32087,"date":"2024-04-21T17:26:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T17:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/21\/india-keeps-a-close-watch-as-maldives-votes-to-elect-a-new-parliament\/"},"modified":"2024-04-21T17:26:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T17:26:11","slug":"india-keeps-a-close-watch-as-maldives-votes-to-elect-a-new-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/21\/india-keeps-a-close-watch-as-maldives-votes-to-elect-a-new-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"India keeps a close watch as Maldives votes to elect a new Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-109481157,imgsize-62556.cms?fit=1200,900&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"India keeps a close watch as Maldives votes to elect a new Parliament\" title=\"India keeps a close watch as Maldives votes to elect a new Parliament\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"11\">India is keeping a close watch as <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/maldives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maldives<\/a> voted on Sunday to elect a new Parliament as a MDP victory in the House will enable it to keep a check on the <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/muizzu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Muizzu<\/a>\u2019s administration\u2019s steps impacting New Delhi\u2019s interests in the region.<br \/><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=107107653potime:1-->As many as 368 candidates are contesting on 93 seats in the parliamentary election<\/p>\n<p>MDP had a majority in the last Parliament. China is also keeping a close watch on the elections. This month, President Md Muizzu awarded high-profile infrastructure contracts to Chinese state-owned companies including airport redevelopment plan as campaigning for the parliamentary elections was in full swing.<\/p>\n<p>Since Muizzu came to office, MPs in the last Parliament blocked three of his nominees to the cabinet and refused some of his spending proposals. Muizzu&#8217;s prospects this week received a fillip with the release of his mentor Yameen from house arrest this week.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Muizzu asked India to withdraw all Indian military personnel deployed in the Indian Ocean archipelago. Following high-level meetings between the two countries, India has replaced military personnel with civilians to run the platforms.<\/p>\n<p>On the eve of election, Muizzu urged voters to grant his coalition a majority in parliament to protect the country\u2019s independence even as Male is seeking daily use items and tourists from India. <\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/india-keeps-a-close-watch-as-maldives-votes-to-elect-a-new-parliament\/articleshow\/109481157.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is keeping a close watch as Maldives voted on Sunday to elect a new Parliament as a MDP victory in the House will enable it to keep a check on the Muizzu\u2019s administration\u2019s steps impacting New Delhi\u2019s interests in the region.As many as 368 candidates are contesting on 93 seats in the parliamentary election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-109481157,imgsize-62556.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[3600,4792,273,4284,35977,35976,4283,29548,3321,3649,1579],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32089,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32087\/revisions\/32089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}