Delhi Weather News Today Live Updates: Kejriwal alleged that Maliwal was “blackmailed” by the BJP to become part of a “conspiracy” against him as she faces a corruption case
Swati Maliwal News, AAP Protest BJP headquarters Live Updates (May 19): As the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders led by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal plan to march towards the BJP headquarters near ITO today, the Delhi Police imposed Section 144 in the area and asserted that the party had not sought any prior permission for the protest. “Sec 144 is in place and no protest movement will be allowed towards BJP HQ. Force is being set up. No request application for protest movement received by police,” Additional DCP (Central) Sachin Sharma.
The escalation in the conflict between AAP and BJP happened after Bibhav Kumar was arrested on Saturday in connection with the alleged assault on AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal at the CM’s residence. Kejriwal alleged that Maliwal was “blackmailed” by the BJP to become part of a “conspiracy” against him as she faces a corruption case and that the BJP wants to send party MP Raghav Chadha and Delhi ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj to prison too. On Saturday, Bibhav Kumar was arrested by the Delhi Police and later sent to a five-day police custody by a Metropolitan Magistrate at Tis Hazari Court.
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Meanwhile, addressing issue of the alleged assault at CM’s residence Maliwal today said that had Manish Sisodia been present, such an incident might have been prevented. “There was a time when we all came out on the streets to get justice for Nirbhaya. Today, after 12 years, we are out on the streets to save the accused who made the CCTV footage disappear and formatted the phone? I wish we had made as much of an effort for Manish Sisodia ji. If he had been here, maybe this wouldn’t have happened to me!” she wrote in a post on X.
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Swati Maliwal assault: How case left AAP on the back foot, gave BJP a campaign issue in slum clusters
A week ago, when Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal asked who would lead the country after Prime Minister Narendra Modi retires, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was forced to respond. A week since then, allegations of assault raised by AAP’s Rajya Sabha member Swati Maliwal against the Chief Minister’s aide Bibhav Kumar has blunted the party’s attack and forced it on the back foot.
Kejriwal, who was granted interim bail by the Supreme Court, allowing him to campaign till June 1, was in Maharashtra’s Bhiwandi on Friday, where he attacked PM Modi and the BJP for intimidating opposition leaders by putting leaders in jail in false cases and freezing Congress’s accounts.
In Delhi, the conversation in AAP continued to revolve around Maliwal’s allegations. At a press conference, the only one addressed by AAP during the day, senior AAP leader Atishi called Maliwal a ‘pawn’ in a conspiracy hatched by the BJP.
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First uploaded on: 19-05-2024 at 09:02 IST
Aisha Patel is a dedicated Indian correspondent with a deep understanding of the nation’s diverse affairs. With a background in Indian culture, politics, and current events, she provides in-depth analysis and timely reporting on domestic issues within India.
