Avneesh Rai, the co-founder of Cambridge Analytica's Indian counterpart told NDTV that Alexander Nix, the disgraced CEO of the UK-based data gathering firm may have plotted to defeat the Congress party ahead of India's 2014 parliamentary elections. Mr Rai is listed as a director of Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL) Pvt Ltd founded in 2011 as an Indian wing of SCL UK, the parent company of the data analytics firm accused of harvesting personal data from Facebook, Cambridge Analytica.