When President Mohamed Muizzu of the Maldives took office in November 2022, he broke with tradition by making his first foreign trip to Turkey rather than India. Typically, Maldivian presidents visit India first to show the close ties between the countries. However, Muizzu had run an anti-India campaign and continued this stance once elected. His party claimed India wanted to use a military base it was building in the Maldives to take over the country. Muizzu demanded India remove its troops, despite it only having 77 soldiers there operating helicopters and planes to reach remote islands for medical evacuations. His "India out" rhetoric tries to portray India as a threat to Maldivian sovereignty and autonomy. The paragraph simplifies the complex diplomatic history while capturing the current tensions over India's role in the Maldives.
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