The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) asked its Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal to resign after her “dummy CM” comments on senior leader Atishi, who has been named the next Chief Minister of Delhi by Arvind Kejriwal.
Senior AAP leader and MLA Dilip Pandey said Maliwal is a “person who takes the ticket to Rajya Sabha from AAP but takes the script to react from BJP.”
He said, “Understand one thing. Swati Maliwal is a person who takes the ticket to Rajya Sabha from AAP but takes the script to react from BJP. If she has even a little shame, she should resign as a Rajya Sabha MP and choose the path to Rajya Sabha on a BJP ticket. If she wants to be in Rajya Sabha, she should get ticket from BJP.”
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His reaction came after Swati Maliwal bashed Atishi saying that her “family fought a long battle to save terrorist Afzal Guru from the death penalty” and called her a “dummy CM”.
Swati Maliwal said, “This is an extremely unfortunate day for Delhi. A woman like Atishi is going to become the CM of Delhi, whose own family fought a long battle to save terrorist Afzal Guru from death penalty. Her parents wrote mercy petitions to the President several times, that he is innocent, that he should not be hanged, that he is a victim of political conspiracy. How wrong is this? Today, Atishi will become the CM but we all know that she will be only a “dummy CM”. Still, this is a major issue because she will be the CM and this matter is directly linked to the security of the country as well as Delhi. God save the people of Delhi from such a CM.”
This development comes after AAP “unanimously” elected Atishi to become the next Chief Minister of Delhi as Arvind Kejriwal decided to step down from the top post. Atishi was also Arvind Kejriwal’s pick for the CM post.