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Swati Maliwal Detained For Dumping Garbage Outside Kejriwal's House — Video

Swati Maliwal and her aides picked garbage from roads in Vikaspuri, collected it into three mini trucks and reached Kejriwal's house on Firozshah Road.

Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal was detained by police on Thursday after she strewed garbage outside AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal's house in protest.

Maliwal and her aides picked garbage from roads in Vikaspuri, collected it into three mini trucks and reached Kejriwal's house on Firozshah Road. She threw shovelful of garbage out on the ground there before she was accosted by female police personnel and removed from the site. 

The Rajya Sabha MP shared a video where she could be seen throwing garbage outside Kejriwal's Kejriwal's 5 Ferozeshah Road residence. Maliwal was present along with her supporters who held placards that read, "Muskuraiye, AAP Delhi Mein Hain."

Shortly later, Maliwal was detained by several police personnel and was taken to a police station.

While being detained, she told reporters, "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 janata sudhaar degi'... I am neither afraid of his goons nor his police."

In an earlier post, she had said, "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."

Meanwhile, the security was heightened outside Kejriwal's residence after the incident. A senior police officer said, "We have installed barricades and deployed additional personnel to maintain law and order. No one will be allowed to breach the law." 

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