Aam Aadmi Party’s senior leader Kumar Vishwas, accused by a party volunteer of not rebutting “rumours” about an illicit liaison with her and ruining her reputation, is not likely to appear before the Delhi Commission for Women on Tuesday.
The Delhi Commission for Women had issued summons to Vishwas, considered close to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, and his wife, after the volunteer approached it seeking its intervention in forcing the AAP leader to dispel the allegations.
DCW chairperson Barkha Singh had on Monday said, “It is the same volunteer who has been coming to us for quite some time now. He (Vishwas) should come since the complainant is his own party’s volunteer. The volunteer’s marriage is falling apart because of him, she has alleged.”
Kumar Vishwas had, however, refused receiving any notice from DCW. Another Aam Aadmi Party leader Somnath Bharti on Tuesday took to microblogging website Twitter to reiterate that Kumar Vishwas has not received DCW notice as yet.
The woman, who claimed to have campaigned for Vishwas in Amethi in 2014 Lok Sabha elections, said she had also written separate letters to Kejriwal and Police Commissioner BS Bassi on the issue but neither of them have responded.
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Facing the heat, Vishwas, a member of AAP’s Political Affairs Committee, said the allegations against him were false and baseless.
The Delhi Police said it has already registered an FIR and investigation was underway on the complaint filed by the woman.
In an exclusive conversation with Zee Media, the woman said, “Just because of this allegation my husband has left me. I have two kids. I belong to a middle class family where they feel that since Kumar Vishwas is AAP spokesperson and a known face, maybe there was something between the two of us.”
“I am unable to explain. That’s why I want Kumar Vishwas to clarify this but he is not doing so. That’s why I had to approach the Women’s Commission.”
The woman also alleged receiving threatening call from a certain “close aide” of Vishwas and sought police protection.
“I received a call at around 10.30 pm last night and I was threatened. Shail, who made the call, stays with Vishwas and manages his party work.”
“Since I have been threatened, I would also want police protection. However, I haven’t made any formal demand in this regard yet because the call came late night,” she said.
The woman claimed after her complaint to the Women’s Commission, people from the AAP leader’s side were putting in efforts to get in touch with her.
She castigated Kejriwal, saying, “You claim to protect the country’s women but you cannot even protect your own party’s female worker”.
The ruling AAP in Delhi has been battling internal strife apart from a string of controversies including over the educational qualification of its law minister and suicide of a farmer at a rally here in Jantar Mantar last month.
PTI