Will UP polls be the semi-finals to 2024 general elections?

The poll bugle has been sounded in battleground Uttar Pradesh ahead of the upcoming state assembly elections. With five months to go for the assembly polls, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi and BSP supremo Mayawati are on a campaigning spree.

Addressing a rally in Ayodhya, Owaisi claimed that Muslims have been cheated in the name of secularism, and challenged Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav to a public debate on the issue.

So, with the political temperature soaring in UP, we raise these questions: Will UP polls be the semi-finals to 2024 general elections? UP polls deciding factor, Covid, farm protest, Ram Mandir? Will UP polls outcome rest on the caste-metric?