Given his track record, Akash Vijayvargiya’s remarks amount to a violent threat; the son of BJP leader, Kailash Vijayvargiya, the first time MLA from Indore has previously thrashed a municipal corporation official with a bat. He was even arrested for it.
Akash Vijayvargiya, son of senior BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya, threatened violence while protesting against the Kamalnath government on crop loss and inflated power bills in the state of Madhya Pradesh. Given his background when he was arrested for thrashing an official of the Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) with a bat, he said, “we don’t roam empty-handed”. Predictably, this remark of his in Hindi, went viral on social media.
Akash Vijayvargiya speaking at an event in Indore
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The BJP has failed to keep many of its aggressive party leaders and elected representatives in check. Despite being elected officials they have been abusing their positions of power and even resorting to violence. In June this year, Akash Vijayvargiya had assaulted an Indore Municipal Corporation official, while he was doing his job. He was arrested but subsequently released on bail and there are no reports of BJP taking any kind of action against him, except a much publicised ‘rebuke’ from Prime Minister Modi.