With two phases of voting left for the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, NDTV's Prannoy Roy and his team on The Countdown get you special insights from the state's electorate, along with exclusive interviews with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and wife Dimple Yadav, and Congress candidate Yogesh Shukla. Another important factor that The Countdown analyses is the Priyanka Gandhi Vadra impact in the state after she was appointed the Congress's general secretary in charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh earlier this year.
In the 2014 general elections, the BJP and its allies won 72 seats in Uttar Pradesh, which sends 80 lawmakers - the highest among states - to the Lok Sabha.