A self-styled political power broker dogged by innuendo and scandal has sought to take the sheen of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Anil K. Antony’s campaign in the Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha constituency.
T.G. Nandakumar, who goes by the sobriquet ‘Dalal’ Nandakumar, has accused Mr. Anil K. Antony of using influence and intrigue for profit when his father, Congress veteran A.K. Antony, was the Defence Minister in the Manmohan Singh government in 2013.
In Kochi, Mr. Nandakumar, whose name has been linked to questionable practices and top politicians across the aisle, alleged that he had paid Mr. Anil K. Antony ₹25 lakh in April 2013 as bribe to get a lawyer friend of his appointed as Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) standing counsel in the Kerala High Court.
