NEW DELHI :
AAM Aadmi Party (AAP) MP
Swati Maliwal has alleged Delhi
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s
aide attacked her with full force,
slapping and kicking her in the
chest and abdomen, charges
rejected as “baseless” by the
party, which accused her of
being the face of a BJP conspiracy to frame Kejriwal.
The allegations are part of an
FIR registered by the Civil Lines
police station here onThursday
against Kejriwal’s personal
assistant Bibhav Kumar.
Maliwal, a member of the Rajya
Sabha, has alleged that she was
assaulted by him at the CM’s
official residence on May 13.
Hitting back at the Aam
Aadmi Party (AAP), Maliwal, a
former chief of the Delhi
Commission for Women
(DCW ), said the party has given in under a “goon’s pressure”
and is now questioning her
character.
Without naming Kumar, she
said, “This goon is threatening
the party (AAP) saying that ‘if
I get arrested, I will reveal all
the secrets’”. Maliwal added
that party has taken a “U-turn”
two days after it accepted that
Kumar had“misbehaved” with
her. In its probe into the incident, the Delhi Police took
Maliwal to the CM’s residence to recreate the crime scene,
an official said, adding that
her statement was also
recordedbeforea magistrate
at the Tis Hazari court.
IntheFIR,Maliwalclaimed
that Kumar hit her with “full
force again and again” and
shewas“kicked and slapped
seven to eight times”.She also
alleged that despite telling
him that she was menstruating and in pain, he did not
budge.
Addressing a press conference, senior AAP leader
Atishi said Maliwal had
reached the CM’s residence
without an appointment and
her intention was to levelallegations against Kejriwal.
“Today a video has surfaced that has exposed the
lie of Maliwal.InherFIR, she
has said she was brutally
assaulted and she was in
pain,andbuttonsofhershirt
weretorn.Thevideothathas
surfaced shows an entirely
different reality,” she said.
Atishisaidthevideoshows
Maliwal“comfortablysitting
in the drawing room” and
“threatening the security
staff”, and that “her clothes
were not torn”.
“The video shows her
threatening Kumar. The
charges levelled by Maliwal
are baseless. Maliwal insisted on meeting Kejriwal. She
is Rajya Sabha MP and she
should know that the CM has
a busy schedule. Kumar told
her that the chief ministeris
busy and unable to meet her.
She shouted at him, pushed
him and tried to enter the residential portion of the CM
House,” she claimed.
“The whole incident
proves that it was a BJP conspiracy and Swati Maliwal
was made its face to frame
Kejriwal,” she alleged. Atishi
said Kumar has also given a
complaint to police against
Maliwal.
Reacting to the AAP press
conference,Maliwal,inapost
on X in Hindi,said,“Theleaders who joined the party
(AAP) yesterday declared a
worker who has been with it
for 20 years an agent of the
BJP. Two days ago, the party
had accepted the truth in a
press conferenceand,today,
it has taken a U-turn.”
On Tuesday, senior AAP
leader and MP Sanjay Singh
had said that the incident
with Maliwal was “highly
condemnable” and had
claimed that Kumar had
“misbehaved” with her.
She alleged thattoday, the
party gave in under a goon’s
pressure and to save him,
“my character was questioned by the entire party”.
Slamming Kejriwal,whois
the AAP’s national convenor,
Union Minister and senior
BJP leader Nirmala
Sitharaman at a press conference here said instead of
making a statement on the
matter and tendering an
apology, he is “shamelessly”
moving around with the
accused, Bibhav Kumar.