Shimla, April 14 -- Naresh Chauhan, the Principal Media Advisor to the Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister, on Tuesday strongly refuted allegations levelled against him and announced that he would initiate criminal proceedings and file a defamation suit against BJP leader Rajinder Rana and others, besides warning similar action against a newspaper.

Addressing a press conference in Shimla, Chauhan accused the BJP of lowering the level of political discourse. "The BJP has brought politics down to a personalised and baseless level of attack. Such low-level allegations are being made only for political mileage," he said.

Chauhan said he would take strict legal recourse against those making "defamatory" statements.

"I will initiate criminal pro...