My photojournalist colleague, Pradeep Dhivar, was utterly shocked when I took him to the then sitting MLA Ganpatrao Deshmukh’s house at Sangola in Solapur district in 2019, because he couldn’t believe a senior politician like him could stay in such conditions. I told Pradeep that the 45-year-old house looked much better now than five years ago. The home still had broken old tiles, but the cracks were filled and there were poorly painted, creaky doors. The furniture bore signs of age and frequent repairing. I wanted an interview with Deshmukh, who had decided to not contest just before the 2019 Assembly polls, and was campaigning for his grandson Dr Aniket, who was the Peasants and Workers Party (PWP) candidate for those elections. Since both were out rallying, we decided to chase them in the constituency. We got hold of them late in the evening in a small village.