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‘I can’t picture you surviving in Indian politics. Let me tell you the reasons: you have morals too much integrity and you lack an ego.’. Without a job and a marriage on the rocks the mild-mannered Jay Banerjee has no choice but to come back from the US to Delhi. A chance meeting with a childhood friend Govardhan Ray aka Raja—a neta with a scandal too many—plunges him into the seamy madcap world of Indian politics. . The fight for the Narayanpore seat—a nondescript district in West Bengal—begins and along with it the process of discovering ‘the real India’. Jay’s challenge: to provide a ‘clean campaign with integrity’. . Replete with colourful campaigns media hullabaloo cynical voters goondas chamchas and all the usual suspects The Candidate is a breezy and humorous story of the great Indian election tamasha.