Claim
Years ago, Mulayam Singh Yadav said that saffron/Hindutva politics is a very big danger for this country.
“कई साल पहले मुलायम सिंह यादव ने कहा था कि भगवा राजनीति या हिंदुत्ववादी राजनीति इस देश के लिए बहुत बड़ा खतरा है।”▶ Watch source segment
Rationale
No fact-checker has flagged this specific paraphrase, and the sentiment attributed to Mulayam Singh Yadav — that saffron/Hindutva politics is a grave danger to the country — is fully consistent with his extensively documented, lifelong secular and anti-communal political stance (opposition to the Ram temple movement, ordering firing on karsevaks in 1990, founding the SP in 1992 against the BJP's saffron surge). No exact verbatim source with these precise words could be independently pinned, so confidence is moderate rather than high, but the characterization accurately reflects his well-established public position.
Evidence
- https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%AE_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%B9_%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%B5 Documents Mulayam Singh Yadav's lifelong secular, anti-Hindutva stance: his vocal opposition to Hindu hardline organisations over the Babri Masjid issue and his professed faith in secularism (dharmnirpekshता), which earned him the 'Maulana Mulayam' label. ✓ 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 as a central secular counter-force to the rise of Hindutva politics in the Hindi heartland from the 1990s, founding the SP in 1992 as the Ram temple movement peaked and repeatedly taking on the BJP's communal 'kamandal' politics. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://www.aajtak.in/fact-check/story/fact-check-this-video-mulayam-singh-yadav-calling-himself-an-enemy-of-hindus-lok-sabha-incomplete-ntc-rptc-2177544-2025-02-27 AajTak fact-check of a separate viral Mulayam clip confirms his consistent record of opposing BJP/saffron communal politics; it debunks an edited 'enemy of Hindus' video but does not contradict his documented framing of saffron politics as dangerous. ✓ reachable · archived