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.