Chennai, May 15 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tamil Nadu unit served a formal defamation notice to its former State Spokesperson, ANS Prasad. The party demanded Rs 1 crore in damages following what it describes as "malicious and baseless" allegations of financial corruption levelled against the state leadership.

The legal notice, issued on Tuesday, by A Kumaraguru, President of the BJP Tamil Nadu Legal Cell, centres on statements Prasad allegedly made in a daily on May 9 and across other public platforms.

According to the document, Prasad accused state-level office bearers of misappropriating funds during the Tamil Nadu State Assembly Elections, collecting money in exchange for MLA seat allotments, using party funds for liquor, fo...