Adhaalath's deputy chief asked to explain why Nasheed was described a secularist

National Complaints Bureau of the Elections Commission has asked the deputy leader of Adhaalath Party Dr Mauroof Hussain to explain why Maldivian Democratic Party’s (MDP) presidential candidate Mohamed Nasheed was described a secularist.

In an interview to Sun tonight, Dr Mauroof said that he received a letter from the EC’s National Complaints Bureau asking him to explain why he had described former president Mohamed Nasheed as a secularist during a Jumhoory Party rally held on the 10th of this month.

Dr Mauroof said that no amount of investigations can stop him from calling the former president a secularist.

He said that Nasheed was appropriately described as he had demeaned Islam, neglected in adhering to religious practices, had removed religious policies from governance and narrowed down the role of Islam in society.

Questioning the impartiality of the Elections Commission for investigating the matter, Dr Mauroof said that it was baffling that the Commission’s members had not made a statement when members allegedly belonging to MDP had created chaos across the country, following the controversial change of government, on 8th of February last year.

Elections Commission was unavailable for comment at the time of press.