AAP chief whip Swati Maliwal has attacked Atishi’s family

and has called for her resignation.

The Rajya Sabha MP blasted Atishi’s parents in a post on X for their stance on Afzal Guru.

Following the announcement by Aam Aadmi Party chief whip Dilip Pandey on Tuesday that Atishi will succeed Arvind Kejriwal as Delhi chief minister, the party’s Rajya Sabha MP called it a “sad day for Delhi” and advised Swati Maliwal to step down and seek a ticket from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Maliwal added in a post on X that Atishi’s parents submitted pleadings for mercy to the President on behalf of Afzal Guru, who was found guilty and executed in connection with the Parliament attack case.

Reacting to Maliwal’s comments on Atishi’s parents, Pandey said, “Swati Maliwal ji is the kind of person who takes a Rajya Sabha ticket from the AAP but takes the script (to reach to a development) BJP.

If she has even a little shame, she should resign from the post of Rajya Sabha MP and choose the path to Rajya Sabha on a BJP ticket”.

Maliwal said in her post loosely translated from Hindi, “Today is a very sad day for Delhi.

A woman is being appointed Chief Minister of Delhi today; her family fought a protracted battle to prevent terrorist Afzal Guru from being hanged. Her parents begged the President of the United States for clemency in order to save terrorist Afzal Guru As per their statement, Afzal Guru was innocent and was framed as part of a political conspiracy”.

“Even though Atishi Marlena is merely a “dummy CM,” the security of the nation is still at stake in this matter. God bless Delhi, she continued.

Longtime friend of Kejriwal and former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, Maliwal, had claimed in May that Kejriwal’s assistant, Bibhav Kumar, had beaten her in the official chief minister’s mansion in Civil Lines.

Kumar was arrested in the case and was granted bail earlier this month.
While the AAP has maintained that Maliwal’s allegations against Kumar were false and were made as part of a conspiracy hatched by the BJP, this is the first time that a senior party functionary has asked her to step down as the Rajya Sabha member.