Rejecting "fake allegations" in an attempt to silence him, popular YouTuber Dhruv Rathee took a veiled dig at AAP MP Swati Maliwal after she alleged that she was receiving rape and death threats following a video uploaded by Rathee.
The video posted by Rathee was about the alleged assault on Maliwal by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar.
In a cryptic post on X, Dhruv Rathee, without taking Swati Maliwal's name, said perpetrators were pretending to be victims.
"Fake allegations against me, daily death threats, dehumanising insults, coordinated campaigns to defame me... I am used to it by now. The irony is that perpetrators are pretending to be victims. Everyone knows who is behind all this. They want to silence me," the YouTuber and vlogger tweeted.
"But that's not going to happen. If you silence 1 Dhruv Rathee, 1000 new ones will rise up," he further said.
On Sunday, Maliwal claimed she was receiving "rape and death threats" amid a "character assassination" campaign allegedly orchestrated by AAP leaders and the situation escalated after a "YouTuber" posted a one-sided video against her.
The former Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief also claimed that she tried to contact the YouTuber to present her side of the story but her calls and messages were ignored.
"It is shameful that people like him, who claim to be independent journalists, could act like other AAP spokespersons and victim-shame me to the extent that I am now facing extreme abuses and threats," she had posted on X. Maliwal had also mentioned her allegation against the YouTuber on Monday when a Delhi court was hearing the bail petition of Bibhav Kumar.
She claimed that a "one-sided video" about the assault case "was made by a YouTuber", following which she started receiving death threats.
The court denied bail to Kumar, saying there was no "pre-meditation" by the AAP MP in lodging the FIR and her allegations could not be "swiped away."
