Delhi Minister Rakhi Birla was again approached by the Delhi Police to provide security but the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader refused saying that she was safe among the people and even wrote a letter to the Delhi Police top brass about her refusal to take security. According to police sources, an official himself visited Birla’s house in Mangolpuri on Thursday with a letter on behalf of the Delhi Police to convince Birla to take security.
“We had written a letter to her requesting to accept the positional security offered to Ministers but she refused,” the official said. Sources in Aam Aadmi Party said that the Delhi Minister refused to take security saying she was safe among the people and even gave it in writing to the officials. Security should be given to the people and women on the roads and other places, not me, she was quoted as saying. The 26-year-old Women and Child Development Minister had lodged a written complaint at Mangolpuri police station on January 5 stating that someone had thrown a stone at her windscreen while she was returning from a function in the area. She later withdrew her complaint when asked by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal after it was revealed that the windscreen had been accidentally hit by a cricket ball while some boys were playing in the area. On Friday, Kejriwal had met the 11-year-old boy whose ball had damaged Birla’s car’s windscreen along with his family at his office.
Kejriwal and his Cabinet have been in the limelight ever since the Ministers have refused to take security despite several attempts. Birla also fell in the spotlight ever since her car windscreen was damaged by a minor boy playing in the area. On January 5 Birla’s car was attacked and a brouhaha surrounded this incident.