A good day for ground reports

Can you read it all?

The Swarajya Ground Reports project had a great day yesterday.

Constituencies and people covered: Nagaon, Mysuru, Wayanad and Akola. Candidates include Maharaja Yaduveer, K Surendran, Annie Raja and Prakhash Ambedkar.

• Nagaon is in the news because that's where Tata's new semiconductor plant is coming up.

• Located in Assam, the constituency is now actually a Muslim majority one.

• My coleague Jaideep's report is THE BEST you can find on this region in the media today. Read it now.

But why go to Mysuru? A popular Maharaja contesting and winning from a city like Mysuru is not THAT interesting a story.

• Except, the constituency has once pushed a royal family member to the THIRD place in electoral hustings. Not that simple and straightforward now, is it?

• While Yaduveer is set to win, our reports gives you a history of the royal family's involvement with the city.

• You can read Sharan Setty's report from Mysuru here.

Swarajya is also present in Wayanad. Our staff writer Rajesh, who has a knack for reading the ground well for constituencies, has camped there for a few days.

• He's angered quite a few of our subscribers and reader by ending up interviewing Annie Raja, the CPI candidate against Rahul Gandhi.

• But his main objective was to speak to BJP Candidate K Surendran and he has that interview published here.

• The interview also includes a good overview of how the constituency votes.

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