Originally posted by: cts22
Common people do not go to Maldives, it is the upper middle class, Bollywood, wealthy business.
The PM of India showed the beauty of Lakshadweep, which is a part of India and asked people to travel and see the place.
Fyi Lakshadweep and Maldives are in a similar geography so the islands are beautiful.
India makes up more than 30% of travel to Maldives, even if 10% of that goes to India places, it will help the economy.
Maldives ministers screwed up by making fun and in fact were being racist to Indians.
Also unlike middle East where a lot of celebs own property, no one has a stake in Maldives.
This racism against Maldives pissed a lot of people off and were called out on social media. This was quite an organic outrage which was also helped by the IT cell.
In this climate it is the Bollywood folks who actually travel to Maldives, when Akshay, Salman started promoting Lakshadweep the rest had to follow as now if a Bollywood celeb promotes Maldives they would be trolled and boycotted
It was not against Modi but the racism against India that outraged people.
Maldives relies heavily on India for tourism plus a lot of Maldive population come to India for medical treatment. It was damage control by government to fire their ministers.
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