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No room for discussion, says Opposition

Opposing alliance to the state run party claims the current conflicts and pressing matters are "trivial" as it can be solved without holding major talks.

Opposition's remarks come as a response to the state's initiative of throwing an olive branch to hold "peace talks" to deliberate about the current political unrest and impacting altercations between the two rivaling wings.

On August 30 government had extended their invitation via letters to former president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and the opposition to take part in peaceful deliberation to exact a conclusion in hopes of brokering truce.

However opposition had slammed this invitation on grounds of skepticism about the honesty of state's intentions.

The anti-government alliance preaches that the state has violated constitutional regulations and conduct by unlawfully detaining and jailing leaders of the opposition while influencing the judiciary to produce judgements favoring their motives.

In a joint statement released from the opposing political parties earlier, they had placed allegations on incumbent president Abdullah Yameen for malpractice of law and regulations to for personal gain while the state's prime motive is to terminate political party movements and thrust to an autocratic rule.

Opposition had also accused the head of the state for encouraging graft and bribery as well as masterminding sinister schemes to extort money from public and foreign investments through unlawful sales of lands, lagoons and reefs across the country. President Abdullah Yameen, according to the opposition is also guilty of thwarting investigations of serious criminal offenses and government led scandals.

The anti-government faction had stressed that their strong belief was the matters concerning the political upheaval were associated wholly to the government which can solved exclusively by the state and therefore room for an intervention among political parties is unnecessary.

Opposition also voiced frustration over previous attempts initiated by them to broker mutual agreement between the two wings which had faced failure at the hand's of government's refusal, and added the budget approved from parliament was not disclosed accordingly.

The statement released by opposition also ridiculed the government over their masquerading attempt of brokering truce - characterizing it as a feeble attempt to curry favor from foreign institutions and governments to adjust the deficit in state funds.

Government had previously extended invitation to hold peace talks between opposition thrice - all were turned down by the opposition who reiterated their chants to release their imprisoned leaders.