Senior BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya has defended his son Akash Vijayvargiya - a party lawmaker - who assaulted a civic official with a cricket bat in Madhya Pradesh's Indore last week, calling him "kachha khiladi" or a "novice". Mr Vijayvargiya also said that the incident, which played out on national television, wan't a "big issue".
