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.
"...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.
Twitter alleged that account-level blocking by the Indian government is supposedly a 'disproportionate measure', which somehow violates the rights of users as ensured by the Indian Constitution.