It is said that road to India's power corridor runs through Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state of the country which sends eighty MPs to the lower house of the Parliament. Till date, most of the Prime Ministers of India belonged to this state and an electoral win in the state assembly paves the way for the formation of a central government. The question is, do we have a barometer to guess the political pulse of the people? What are the political trends in the state? Which are the political, social, and economic factors that affect those trends? Would extreme backward castes (EBCs) be successful in getting direct share in the power structure, which has been a dream so far for them? This book written by veteran journalist Pradeep Srivastava tries to find out answers to these questions with in-depth analysis and in an easy to understand language.