Claim

Pradeep Bhandari and Anurag Dhanda are former TV-journalist colleagues of the anchor, and they cleverly dominated the debate, sidelining Anurag Bhadoria, whose leader (Akhilesh Yadav) was the actual topic.

“मेरे दो फॉर्मर कोलीग जो कि टीवी जर्नलिस्ट ही रहे हैं। उनको बहुत अच्छे से आर्ट पता है कि कैसे डिबेट में बने रहना है। वन इज़ प्रदीप भंडारी एंड वन इज़ अनुराग ढांडा। ... इन्होंने इतनी स्मार्टली करा है कि जिनके नेता पर आज बहस थी। अनुराग भदोरिया ... को उन्होंने चुप कर दिया है।”

Rationale

The verifiable factual components check out: Pradeep Bhandari (ex-Republic/Zee/India News) and Anurag Dhanda (ex-Aaj Tak/Zee/News18) are both genuine former TV journalists who shared the TV-news circuit with anchor Amish Devgan, and Anurag Bhadoria is indeed a Samajwadi Party spokesperson whose leader is Akhilesh Yadav. The remaining part of the claim — that the two 'cleverly dominated' the debate and 'sidelined' Bhadoria — is the anchor's own subjective characterization of a debate on his own show and is not an objectively fact-checkable assertion; no fact-checker covers it. Confidence is not higher because that evaluative portion cannot be independently verified.

Evidence

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pradeep_Bhandari Confirms Pradeep Bhandari is a former TV journalist/news anchor who worked as consulting editor at Republic TV/Republic Bharat and Zee News before becoming BJP national spokesperson — overlapping TV-news circuit with anchor Amish Devgan (Zee News/News18). ✓ reachable · archived
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/anurag-dhanda-0606ba65/ Anurag Dhanda's profile and reporting show he worked as a journalist at Aaj Tak, Zee News and News18 India before joining AAP as National Media In-charge — confirming he is a former TV journalist. ✓ reachable · archived
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anurag_Bhadouria Confirms Anurag Bhadouria is Samajwadi Party National Spokesperson and a close aide of party chief Akhilesh Yadav, i.e. his 'leader' is Akhilesh Yadav, the stated debate topic. ✓ reachable · archived