Claim

Many years ago, Mulayam Singh Yadav said that saffron politics or Hindutva politics is a very big danger for this country.

“देखिए कई साल पहले मुलायम सिंह यादव ने कहा था कि भगवा राजनीति या हिंदुत्ववादी राजनीति इस देश के लिए बहुत बड़ा खतरा है।”

Rationale

The anchor's statement is a paraphrase of Mulayam Singh Yadav's well-documented, lifelong political stance: he built the Samajwadi Party as a secular counter to the Ram-temple/Hindutva movement, led the anti-BJP UP government of 1993, and repeatedly framed saffron/communal politics as a danger to the nation's unity and secular fabric. The substance of the claim is consistent with his established public positions. However, no fact-checker or primary transcript ties the exact wording ('bhagwa/Hindutva politics is a very big danger for this country') to a specific verifiable occasion, and the 'many years ago' framing is non-specific, so the paraphrase is substantively accurate but the precise quotation cannot be independently confirmed, hence moderate confidence.

Evidence

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulayam_Singh_Yadav Documents that Mulayam Singh Yadav founded the Samajwadi Party in 1992 as a secular counterweight to the rising Hindutva/Ram-temple movement, ran the 1993 UP government on an explicitly anti-BJP ('Jai Shri Ram') platform, and built his political identity around opposing saffron/Hindutva politics. ✓ reachable · archived
• https://www.opindia.com/2022/10/mulayam-singh-yadav-death-caste-politics-vs-hindutva-sanghi-who-never-went-to-shakha-book-excerpt/ Describes Mulayam's decades-long positioning of his caste-based, Muslim-inclusive politics as a bulwark against BJP/Hindutva, confirming his repeated framing of saffron politics as a threat to the country. ✓ reachable · archived