The whole of Andhra Pradesh bakes in the month of May. But Guntur bakes in a particular way, the heat is more white than anywhere else, the sun appears to be at touching distance at midday, the sunshine a blinding flash. That’s perhaps what gives the Guntur chilli the extra sting. On a sweltering midday like this we wait for the elevator to go up to the sixth floor apartment of Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar, the richest candidate in these Lok Sabha elections. It seems to be a new building, his flat is plush and large but not ostentatious.