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Nasheed held world's first underwater cabinet
meeting
Tuesday February 07, 2012 03:41:40 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Maldives
44-year-old President Mohamed Nasheed, who quit Tuesday, hit the
global headlines three years ago when he held a cabinet meeting
under water to highlight global warming and the threat to his
atoll nation.
In an innovative move aimed at grabbing attention, Nasheed and his
ministers were in full scuba gear as they met for about 30 minutes
at a depth of six metres just north of the capital Male in 2009.
Nasheed was the first democratically elected president in the
history of the Maldives, said the president's official website
presidencymaldives.gov.mv.
He was elected president Oct 28, 2008, defeating incumbent
president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who ruled the Maldives from
1978-2008.
Nasheed graduated from Liverpool University in 1989 with a
Bachelor of Arts in Maritime Studies.
In 1990, Nasheed helped establish Sangu, a political magazine that
scrutinised the ruling political class. The government banned
Sangu within a year of its first publication and Nasheed was
arrested and jailed.
In 2003, Nasheed fled the Maldives. A year later, on Nov 10, 2004,
he co-founded the country's first opposition party, the Maldivian
Democratic Party, in exile in Sri Lanka.
After spending 18 months in self-imposed exile, Nasheed returned
to the Maldives April 30, 2005 to establish the MDP in the
Maldives, defying a government edict banning political parties.
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