Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal was detained by police on Thursday, January 30, after she dumped garbage outside former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's house in protest over cleanliness issues in the national capital. As Swati Maliwal was escorted away in a police van, the AAP MP told the media that if she had a conversation with Arvind Kejriwal, she would tell him, “sudhar jao warna janta sudhar degi (Mend your ways, or the people will do it for you).”
Swati Maliwal said, “The whole city has turned into a garbage bin...I came here to have a conversation with Arvind Kejriwal. I would say to him 'sudhar jao warna janta sudhaar degi'. I am neither afraid of his goons nor his police.”
In protest against the garbage issue in Delhi, Swati Maliwal and her aides picked up the waste from roads in Vikaspuri, collected it into three mini trucks with ‘Kejriwal ka kooda’ written on them and reached the AAP convenor's house on Firozshah Road.
The AAP MP had 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 very angry. 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.”
Outside Arvind Kejriwal's residence, Swati Maliwal and her aides strewed shovelful of garbage out on the ground. She was then accosted by female police personnel and removed from the site.
Back in November, Swati Maliwal threw ‘polluted water’ outside the residence of Delhi Chief Minister Atishi, claiming that the same water was being supplied to the people of the national capital. Weeks later, Arvind Kejriwal and other AAP leaders have blamed Haryana for releasing high levels of ammonia into the Yamuna water which Delhi receives.
Swati Maliwal had a fallout with AAP after she alleged that she was physically assaulted at Arvind Kejriwal's home in Delhi. The case is currently being heard.
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