<p class="title">After Prime Minister Narendra Modi's stern message regarding the assault by BJP MLA Akash Vijayvargiya on a civic official, local party leaders claimed Tuesday that Vijayvargiya was not welcomed upon his release.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Akash, son of BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, was caught on tv cameras last week while attacking a civic official here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">After the MLA was released on bail, he was welcomed with garlands at the local BJP office.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Some pictures showed a garlanded Akash being offered sweets by local BJP leader Gopikrishna Nema. Indore-2 MLA Ramesh Mendola and other party leaders were also present.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, local BJP leaders seemed to have changed their tune after Modi said during a party meeting in Delhi Tuesday that "whoever it may be, whoever's the son he may be, such arrogance, misbehaviour cannot be tolerated".</p>.<p class="bodytext">Though Modi did not mention the incident, it was clearly a reference to Akash Vijayvargiya's attack on a municipal officer with a cricket bat on June 26.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Speaking to reporters here, Mendola said, "Akash was not welcomed (after he got bail). No one went to welcome him.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I had gone to the district jail Sunday morning to bring Akash and took him home. We did not host the welcome function. We even don't have permission for such a reception," said Mendola, a close friend of Kailash Vijayvargiya.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He also said that whatever the party decides in Akash's case, "it will be acceptable to all of us".</p>.<p class="bodytext">Nema said they "will follow the directives of the party leadership on this issue".</p>.<p class="bodytext">Madhya Pradesh Congress spokesperson Narendra Saluja alleged that the BJP did not have the courage to act against Akash and his father.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The prime minister had spoken against Bhopal MP Pragya Thakur when she made a statement supporting Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse, but no action was taken against her," Saluja pointed out.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kailash Vijayvargiya had crossed his party's line on several occasions but the BJP did not dare take action against him, the Congress leader claimed. </p>
<p class="title">After Prime Minister Narendra Modi's stern message regarding the assault by BJP MLA Akash Vijayvargiya on a civic official, local party leaders claimed Tuesday that Vijayvargiya was not welcomed upon his release.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Akash, son of BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, was caught on tv cameras last week while attacking a civic official here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">After the MLA was released on bail, he was welcomed with garlands at the local BJP office.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Some pictures showed a garlanded Akash being offered sweets by local BJP leader Gopikrishna Nema. Indore-2 MLA Ramesh Mendola and other party leaders were also present.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, local BJP leaders seemed to have changed their tune after Modi said during a party meeting in Delhi Tuesday that "whoever it may be, whoever's the son he may be, such arrogance, misbehaviour cannot be tolerated".</p>.<p class="bodytext">Though Modi did not mention the incident, it was clearly a reference to Akash Vijayvargiya's attack on a municipal officer with a cricket bat on June 26.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Speaking to reporters here, Mendola said, "Akash was not welcomed (after he got bail). No one went to welcome him.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I had gone to the district jail Sunday morning to bring Akash and took him home. We did not host the welcome function. We even don't have permission for such a reception," said Mendola, a close friend of Kailash Vijayvargiya.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He also said that whatever the party decides in Akash's case, "it will be acceptable to all of us".</p>.<p class="bodytext">Nema said they "will follow the directives of the party leadership on this issue".</p>.<p class="bodytext">Madhya Pradesh Congress spokesperson Narendra Saluja alleged that the BJP did not have the courage to act against Akash and his father.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The prime minister had spoken against Bhopal MP Pragya Thakur when she made a statement supporting Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse, but no action was taken against her," Saluja pointed out.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kailash Vijayvargiya had crossed his party's line on several occasions but the BJP did not dare take action against him, the Congress leader claimed. </p>