Elections 2019 Phase 2: Will communities transcend caste barriers in UP?

A pot-pourri of loyalties among the various castes will make this election very interesting, as no clear trend can be forecast as on date. Only May 23 will tell which way the wind blows

Eight constituencies in Uttar Pradesh -- four general and four reserved -- will go to the polls in the second phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections starting April 18. While Nagina, Bulandshahar, Hathras and Agra are reserved constituencies, Amroha, Aligarh, Mathura and Fatehpur Sikri fall in the general category. If someone studies the caste and religious profiles of all these constituencies, it becomes clear that each of them has a very large Hindu population varying from 75 to 88 per cent. The population of Muslims as the second largest religious group in these constituencies varies between 12 per cent