In Allahabad, normal office activity begins well after 10 am. But for the last couple of months, the two-storeyed headquarters of the local Shyam Group, possibly Allahabad’s biggest home-grown business, on the plush Thornhill Road, has been buzzing from 8. The high-profile corporate office of BJP candidate Shyama Charan Gupta, entrepreneur and owner of the Rs 350 crore Shyam Group, had become an orange war camp. The industrialist had put not just his office but also his teams to work on winning the election. Just as in a corporate office, teams were engaged in cubicles, working on his campaigns. The former MP from Banda was making a desperate attempt to topple the two-time Samajwadi Party MP Kunwar Rewati Raman Singh from the prestigious Allahabad seat.