Anil Antony, the son of Congress veteran AK Antony, who joined the BJP today, said it was a difference of ideas and opinion that had propelled his move. On his father's sharp and public criticism of his decision, he said, "My father is a person I have the deepest love and respect for".
"It is not personal in any manner," Anil Antony told NDTV this evening. "This is a difference of ideas, viewpoints of where the country's trajectory is. I have made it very clear that I represent young India," he added.