DRP attempted to kill cabinet with “sorcery”

Adhaalath party has alleged the main opposition Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (DRP) used “sorcery” to try and kill the president and his ministers during the underwater cabinet meeting on 17 October.
A statement published on the party’s website on Thursday says that a sorcerer was hired despite the party learning from an astrologer and a fortune teller that the president and the ministers would emerge from the water unscathed.
“The black magic of their sorcerer to make sure the cabinet members don’t emerge from underwater failed,” it reads.
It adds that the sorcerer prayed at Bahaa’udheen mosque with his back to the qibla in an “unclean state” at 11.30am on the day of the dive for help from “jinns and shaitans [devils]”.statement goes on to say that DRP was “jealous” and resentful of the cabinet’s history-making dive and its leaders “shed tears” when they watched the event on television.
It further mocks DRP’s alleged claim to overthrow the government on 3 November, saying DRP could not bring down a government it did not vote for but was rather elected by other people.
Speaking to Minivan News today, DRP MP for Thohdhoo Ali Waheed said Adhaalath party seemed to have a faction called “Adhaalath Kids”, in the manner of TVM’s and DhiTV’s children programme “TVM Kids” and “DhiKids”, to issue such “stupid press releases”.
“Maybe they used such tactics to win last year’s presidential campaign,” he said. “So, like thieves and fools, thinks all others are such. Adhaalath party leadership are just trying to make news in order to dissolve the current religious issues in the country.
“Just one question to them. Last year they questioned Madam Nasreena’s buruga [former first lady who does not wear the veil]. So why not question Madam Laila’s [current first lady who does not wear a veil] buruga rather than creating such stupid releases!” he said.
“Extremist party”
Another press release issued on Thursday by Adhaalath party states that DRP was an “extremist party” that revolved around one individual, referring to its leader and former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
“While Ali Waheed said the Adhaalath Party is run for the benefit of just three people, has he forgotten that DRP is an extremist party that is run for the benefit of one individual?” it reads.
At a press conference on Thursday, DRP MP for Thohdhoo Ali Waheed said Adhaalath existed to protect the interests of just three people: Islamic Minister Abdul Majeed Abdul Bari, State Minister Mohamed Shaheem Ali Saeed and Hussein Rasheed Ahmed, the party’s president.
Ali Waheed said he talked about how Adhaalath was not doing anything to combat irreligious elements in society.
“I said there is an idol in a restaurant near the president’s office and we even have photos of it,” he said.
The Adhaalath Party was trying to justify their lack of action by saying they were conducting investigations, he added, which never yielded any results.
“Their answers are what a politician would say, not people who want to protect religion,” he said.
Waheed said he was not overly concerned with the Adhaalath Party’s statements to the media.
“There’s not even an office boy in this country that was elected from the Adhaalath Party,” he said. “We are in the much happier situation of being elected by the people.”
He added it was likely that the press releases attacking DRP were drafted by the three senior members of Adhaalath party.
“Jealous”
The Adhaalath press release states that the call for prayer was stopped for “one individual” and religion was “distorted” to serve his purposes.
“The state system was demolished and the treasury was emptied for him, parliament was paralysed and he tried to control the judiciary,” reads the Adhaalath press release.
It adds that the party was spreading falsehoods for the sake of one man and it seems to have forgotten “article nine of the evasion bill”.
The press statement goes on to say that there have been positive developments in religious matters since the Adhaalath Party took over the Islamic ministry.
Laws have been made and enforced against prostitution at massage parlours that went on with the authorisation of the DRP government, it continues, and the religious sermons that went unchanged for thirty years have been improved.
“Today we are hearing the truth from religious scholars who can speak freely now. The incarceration and torture of religious scholars has stopped,” it reads.
The Adhaalath Party functions on the principle of discussion and consultation, it reads, and DRP was “jealous” of its success in religious matters.
Unlike DRP’s leaders, it adds, Adhaalath’s leaders were elected in a popular vote and DRP’s numerous efforts to destroy the party were unsuccessful.
“It would be wise to accept defeat,” it reads. “God willing, religion could never again be used as your property or as a shield against any threat that faces you.”
It urges the Maldivian people to beware of the remarks of people like Ali Waheed who had “sold their souls”.
by Ahmed Naish, Minivan News