Writing to Arvind Kejriwal, Swati Maliwal claims that the Delhi government is portraying DCW as “weak.”
In a letter to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, former DCW chief executive Swati Maliwal charged that his ministers had turned the women’s panel into a “weak institution”.
Maliwal had resigned from her position as the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chair when the Aam Aadmi Party nominated her to the Rajya Sabha.
“Since my resignation as the Delhi Commission for Women’s head, the government officials in Delhi have created a barrier against the commission”.
“None of the staff has been paid salary for the last six months, the budget has been reduced by 28.5 per cent, 181 helpline has been withdrawn and no work has been done to fill the posts of chairman and two members,” Maliwal wrote in Hindi on her X handle.
The women’s helpline 181, which will now be under the control of Delhi Women and Child Development Minister Kailash Gahlot, would not be operational for a few days as a transitional measure.
According to him, the Department of Women and Child Development, not the DCW, will be required to oversee the women’s helpline. This is a move made by the federal government.
Maliwal stated in the same article, “It has been 1.5 years since a Dalit member’s position was left empty! Immediately upon my departure, every conceivable measure was taken to restore the Women’s Commission to its former state of weakness. Why is the government of Delhi behaving so hostilely toward women? I’ve sent a letter to @ArvindKejriwal ji asking for a response.”
Maliwal has claimed that she was assaulted at the chief minister’s mansion by Bibhav Kumar, a senior aide of Kejriwal. In this case, Kumar is under judicial detention.