Updated 18:09 IST, January 30th 2025

VIDEO: Delhi Police Detain Swati Maliwal For Dumping Garbage Outside Kejriwal's Residence

Delhi Police detained AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal for dumping garbage outside the residence of Kejriwal in New Delhi.

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VIDEO: Delhi Police Detain Swati Maliwal For Dumping Garbage Outside Kejriwal's Residence
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New Delhi: Delhi Police detained disgruntled Rajya Sabha MP from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Swati Maliwal , on Thursday, for dumping garbage outside the residence of AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal in New Delhi.

Maliwal and her aides picked up garbage from roads in Vikaspuri, collected it into three mini trucks and reached Kejriwal's house on Firozshah Road. She threw a shovelful of garbage out on the ground there before she was accosted by female police personnel and removed from the site. 

Scores of women holding placards that read "Muskuraiye, AAP Delhi Mein Hain" were seen near Kejriwal's 5 Ferozeshah Road residence.
Maliwal arrived there in one of the three garbage trucks. 

Maliwal told ANI, “Arvind Kejriwal has turned Delhi into a garbage dump...There is garbage everywhere...People are facing a lot of problems...The garbage is there in the sewage, road, and outside the houses of the people...No one is doing anything to tackle this problem...Therefore we went outside the residence of Arvind Kejriwal and dumped the garbage there to make him feel how the people of Delhi are feeling...so that his eyes get open and he works for the people... I work only for the benefit of the people of Delhi...I am not afraid of his goons or police...An FIR is also being lodged against me, but I am not afraid of them...” 

She earlier shared a video on X of herself and others gathering garbage from Vikaspuri. 

"There have been heaps of garbage on the roads in Vikaspuri for years. People are outraged. They are going to collect all this garbage and dump it at Kejriwal's house," she wrote in the post. 

She added, "The condition of the entire Delhi has deteriorated. The filth and stink that Delhiites face daily will be faced by Kejriwal ji today … The public is coming, Kejriwal ji, don’t be afraid." In the wake of the incident, security was heightened outside Kejriwal's residence.


A senior police officer said, "We have installed barricades and deployed additional personnel to maintain law and order. No one will be allowed to breach the law." 

Maliwal had a fallout with the party and its top leader Arvind Kejriwal last year after she went to meet him at his house but was allegedly misbehaved with there by Kejriwal's personal secretary. 

That matter is being heard in court. (with PTI inputs)
 

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Published 15:09 IST, January 30th 2025