The next Indian general election is 2024. But five state elections take place in February, with over one hundred million people likely to take part, and two very big ones.
Protesters burn an effigy of Uttar Pradesh's chief minister, fundamentalist monk Yogi Adityanath, after the gang rape of a Dalit woman, October 2021. Effigies of Adityanath were also burnt during last year's farmers' struggle