Watch | 'BJP's Communal Agenda Will Be Defeated in UP Elections': Sudhir Panwar

Samajwadi Party leader, former member of Uttar Pradesh planning commission and professor at Lucknow University Sudhir Panwar speaks to The Wire on a range of decisive factors that will play an important role in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls scheduled for early next year.

He believes that the Samajwadi Party under the leadership of Akhilesh Yadav is best placed to consolidate anti-incumbency votes among various communities of the state.