Nasheed: Rahvehi Fathis will dawn on Aneh Dhiveiraajje

MDP leader, former President Mohamed Nasheed, on Friday, said the party’s Rahvehi Fathis campaign for the local council elections would dawn on the Aneh Dhivehiraajje its party members desired.

MDP launched its Rahvehi Fathis campaign – which loosely translates to “dawn of islands” - in a ceremony at the Alimas Carnival on Friday night.

Speaking at the event, Nasheed, who also serves as Speaker of the Maldivian Parliament, said that Maldives, after the local council elections slated for April 4, would wake up to a whole new world, marked by the establishment of a system where every island, atolls and city would be empowered to enjoy true autonomy with administrative and financial autonomy with the amendments to Decentralization Act.

He said that Maldives, after the elections, would wake up to a world where its people would be able to utilize the biggest resource for development.

“This is a dawn facilitated by a decentralized system of governance. It’s about to dawn on us attaining the Aneh Dhivehiraajje we want to see,” said Nasheed.

He said that the Rahvehi Fathis concept was a full MDP ideology.

“This is a dawn colored in golden yellow. This is not anyone else’s dawn. This is our dawn. This dawn belongs to you,” said Nasheed.

He said that Maldivian leaders had suppressed its people for ages. But that the current Maldivian generation would no longer stand for it, had had risen up to demand their rights.

“Decentralization is an open system. It will not suppress. The people are about to enjoy a system of achievement and progress, of openness, a system which Maldivian Democratic Party worked so hard to establish for the Maldivian people,” said Nasheed.