BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Saturday said he was not aware that the party had issued any show-cause notice to his son and MLA Akash for assaulting a civic official with a cricket bat in Indore last month.

Conflicting statements have emerged from the BJP on the issue, with the Madhya Pradesh BJP president saying on Thursday no decision was taken on the matter and a senior national leader asserting that a notice had been issued.

“I don’t know about it. I (just) reached here (Bhopal) from Delhi but I read in newspapers that Akash was served something,” Kailash Vijayvargiya told journalists on Saturday.

Asked if he had pulled up Akash, Vijayvargiya said he had done whatever he was supposed to do as a father.

He had earlier described his son as a “novice” and the assault as a minor misdemeanour.

Asked on Saturday if a notice has been issued to Akash, Satyendra Bhushan Singh, office secretary of the state BJP, said: “Nothing like that, at least in my knowledge.”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had on Tuesday disapproved of Akash’s conduct.