Notably, Solih’s defeat to Muizzu marks the first time Maldivians have voted out a liberal democratic government in favour of an authoritarian challenger since the country held its first multi-party elections in 2008, Al Jazeera reported.
India has raised with the UK foreign office and the police the incident in which its High Commissioner Vikram Doraiswami was prevented from entering a gurdwara in Scotland
"...We have also had a culture of vote banks and there are sections who had in their own eyes a certain privilege…and it's a phenomenon," Jaishankar said during an interaction at the Hudson Institute in the US.