DELHI COMMISSION FOR WOMEN CHAIRPERSON Swati Maliwal TO BE IN RAJYA, SABHA, SANJAY SINGH TO FILE NOMINATION FROM JAIL
The Political Affairs Committee of Aam Admi Party chaired by its national convenor and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has nominated the name of Delhi Commission for Women chairperson Swati Maliwal for Rajya Sabha from Delhi who was representing Delhi Commission for women as its chief for the last eight years.
The opportunity for Swati Maliwal arose after one of the three sitting MPs of AAP in Rajya Sabha Sushil Gupta expressed his inability to repeat this time showing interest in Haryana politics to dedicate himself there wholeheartedly.
However, the other two sitting MPs N. D. Gupta and Sanjay Singh will be repeated this time as well.
AAPs all the three Rajya Sabha candidates would be filing their nominations on 19 th January and are sure to win.
In Delhi’s political history Sanjay Singh MP RS would be filing his nomination papers from Tihar Jail after he was granted permission by the Rouse Avenue Court whose membership is to end on 27 th January.
The most vociferous Rajya Sabha MP from AAP Sanjay Singh is behind bars in Tihar jail in connection with the liquor scam and a new Delhi govt’s excise policy.
While this would be the first term of the Delhi Women Commission chief Swati Maliwal who had been the chairperson of DCW for the last 8 years working for women’s rights etc, the sitting MPs, Narayan Dutt Gupta and Sanjay Singh would be repeating this time after their names were cleared by the political affairs Committee of Aam Admi Party chaired by Arvind Kejriwal today.
The DCW after hearing her name having been accepted for Rajya Sabha from Delhi became emotional, writing on social platform X in Hindi : Pal do pal is my story… Today with moist eyes I said goodbye to Delhi Women Commission. Didn’t realize when 8 years had passed. Saw many ups and downs while living here. Dedicated her every day to the welfare of Delhi and the country. The fight is not over, it is just beginning….
Speaking to ANI Swati Maliwal said : “Delhi Commission for Women has done great work in the last eight years. We have done direct work on 1 lakh 70 thousand complaints. We sent more than 500 suggestions to the central government, the Delhi government & the Delhi Police. Counselling of 60,000 sexual assault survivors was done…Around 41 lakh calls were received on 181 Women’s helpline number…Delhi Commission for Women was not scared & raised important questions from the system…” said, Maliwal.
