Claim

Allegedly, Hindus were described (by an opposition figure) as more dangerous than Al-Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba.

“अब कथित तौर पर हिंदुओं को अलकायदा और लश्कर से भी ज्यादा खतरनाक बताया।”

Rationale

No opposition figure is documented calling 'Hindus' (the community) more dangerous than both Al-Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba. The claim rests on a real but twisted event — the 2009 WikiLeaks cable in which Rahul Gandhi reportedly said radicalised Hindu groups may pose a greater threat than Lashkar-e-Taiba. The broadcast misrepresents 'Hindu extremists' as 'Hindus' and adds Al-Qaeda, which was never in the statement; the anchor's own 'allegedly' underscores it is a characterization rather than a verbatim quote.

Evidence

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahul_Gandhi Documents the 2009 WikiLeaks cable: Rahul Gandhi told US Ambassador Roemer he viewed radicalised Hindu groups / polarising BJP figures as a bigger threat than Muslim militants such as Lashkar-e-Taiba — a comparison about Hindu extremists, not Hindus as a community, and referencing only LeT. ✓ reachable · archived
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_terrorism Background on the 'saffron terror' / Hindu-extremism political debate that opposition figures' comparisons draw on; the discourse concerns radicalised groups, not the Hindu community, and does not equate Hindus with Al-Qaeda. ✓ reachable · archived
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lashkar-e-Taiba Confirms Lashkar-e-Taiba and Al-Qaeda are distinct organisations; the underlying opposition statement referenced only LeT, so bundling Al-Qaeda into the quote is an added distortion. ✓ reachable · archived