Reporters, anxious to know how Biju Janata Dal chief Naveen Patnaik decided to dump the BJP and tie up with the Left, kept calling CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury and followed this up with SMSs. When he returned to Delhi, Yechury apologised for not being able to give them the details of the biggest story, so far, of the elections by saying, “To understand how things happened, you should have been there. One can’t know things over SMS and phone calls.”