Maldives Opposition Leader Calls For "Tougher Stand" To Repair Ties With India
NDTV
India-Maldives row: He underlined how the entire matter has reached a lot of Indians as well as Maldivians, due to easy accessibility of social media.
Amid the ongoing row between India and the Maldives, opposition leader and the Chairperson of the Maldivian Democratic Party, Fayyaz Ismail, has called for a "tougher stand" by the government, saying that the racist comments against India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were just isolated individual opinions of these people who were unfortunately given positions in the government.
He underlined how the entire matter has reached a lot of Indians as well as Maldivians, due to easy accessibility of social media.
"I personally believe the government should take a tougher stand on that because this goes beyond government to government. Now, because of the easy accessibility of social media, this has reached to a lot of Indians and to a lot of Maldivians. And as arguments take over from both sides, there has been lot of insults coming back and forth. So the government needs to show that there was no intention on the part of the government. These were just isolated individual opinions of these people who, unfortunately, were given positions in the government. So that needs to be clearly shown to the Indians, to the Maldivians, and to the entire world at large," he said.
