New Delhi, April 22 -- Maldives' pro-China President Mohamed Muizzu ruling People's National Congress (PNC) has won a supermajority in the Maldives Parliament by bagging 60 seats in the parliamentary elections held on April 21, 2024. This landslide victory is against the backdrop of Indian media propagating that Muizzu's fate hung in the balance since he spoiled relations with India by walking on a knife edge.

Now that Muizzu's PNC has scored an emphatic win in the parliamentary elections, the rhetoric in our media has shifted to the drop in Indian tourists to the Maldives and how Maldives attracts about 25 percent of its GDP directly from tourism. According to the Maldives Tourism Ministry, as of March 2, 2024, only 27,224 Indian touris...