New Delhi:
New Delhi is making ready a grand welcome for all of the South Asian leaders who will attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony on Sunday. PM Modi will take oath for a file third time period on Sunday, and several other heads of state will attend the ceremony, together with Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu.
Relations between India and Maldives have deteriorated since Muizzu assumed workplace in November final yr. Throughout his election marketing campaign, he typically criticised India and demanded an entire withdrawal of Indian navy personnel.
All Indian armed forces have left the nation and have now been changed by civilians.
However India prolonged an olive department inviting him to the swearing-in ceremony of PM Modi. President Muizzu expressed his gratitude to PM Modi for the invitation, including that he could be honoured to attend this historic occasion.
“He additionally said that he appears to be like ahead to working with the Prime Minister to additional strengthen the shut relations with India, noting that Maldives-India relations are heading within the constructive route, as could be demonstrated by this go to,” the official launch stated.
It will mark the pro-China president’s first official go to to India since assuming workplace on November 17 final yr. Not like his predecessors, who made the primary port of name to New Delhi after assuming workplace, Muizzu had travelled to Turkey first and to China for his first state go to in January.
Forward of his arrival in Delhi, an enormous banner has been put up exterior the Overseas Ministry which options each PM Modi and Muizzu.
Posters of PM Modi with different Asian leaders attending the occasion have additionally been put up throughout Delhi. The swearing-in ceremony is predicted to witness the presence of leaders from neighbouring nations, together with Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Mauritius, and Seychelles, along with the Maldives, as a part of India’s ‘Neighbourhood First’ coverage.
