India digital bosses Nilekani and Balakrishnan vie for votes

Two of India's leading information technology figures - Nandan Nilekani and V Balakrishnan - hope to win over voters in Bangalore with their record of corporate success and transparency, reports Saritha Rai.
Both are former employees of tech company Infosys - the two men helped mould it into one of India's largest IT services firms, seen by many as a hallmark for corporate accountability and good governance, according to a news agency.
Now the colleagues of 22 years are fighting a fierce electoral battle in neighbouring constituencies in the southern city of Bangalore, promising to deliver to similar standards in politics.
Nandan Nilekani, 58, co-founder and former CEO of Infosys, and V Balakrishnan or Bala, 50, its former CFO, come from the same Infosys pedigree but have adopted strikingly different approaches in the election.
Mr Nilekani, the billionaire who quit Infosys in 2009 and headed the government's ambitious project to provide a unique identification number to half of India's billion-plus people, is a candidate in Bangalore South for India's oldest political party, the Congress.
Multimillionaire Balakrishnan, who has no public service experience, is the Bangalore Central candidate for the anti-corruption political start-up, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).