wikileaks rahul gandhi: Wikileaks: Rahul Gandhi feared Hindu extremist threat

Rahul Gandhi, widely tipped as a coming years Indian PM, deemed Hindu radicals is able to be a greater threat as opposed to Islamist militants, diplomatic cables reveal.

According to Wikileaks, Mr Gandhi imparted upon a US envoy the preceding year there was a few validation with Indian Muslims for militants this type of as Lashkar-e-Taiba.

But he informed ambassador Timothy Roemer the greater threat will turn up based on the cost increase of radical Hindu groups.

Opposition own politicians responded, offering Mr Gandhi has "a sick mind".

Mr Gandhi was at a lunch hosted by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in July 2009, Ambassador Roemer wrote in a cable a period later.

He recalls Mr Gandhi saying: "Although there was evidence of a good deal of substantiation for Laskar-e-Taiba amid specific ingredients in India's indigenous Muslim community, the even greater threat may be the rise of radicalised Hindu groups, that craft religious tensions and political confrontations through the Muslim community."

In a statement released on Friday, Mr Gandhi - scion of India's Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty - stressed the "terrorism and communalism of all types" was a threat to India.

But opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party spokesman Prakash Javdekar informed AFP: "To engage Hindu groups a multitude of uncertain as opposed to Lashkar-e-Taiba is the product of a sick mind."

Rahul Gandhi, who is secretary total of the Congress party, lead to controversy in October when he put against a right-wing Hindu collection amid a banned Islamic group, stating both preached fundamentalist ideologies.

Other revelations relating to India in the newly written Wikileaks cables include:

 * US lawmakers declared worry in June 2006 overly terrorists could easily take advantage of lax security at Indian laboratories to steal "bacteria, parasites, viruses or toxins" and mount biological fits every where in the globe
 * During a chat in 2006 in on California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's wife Maria Shriver, Rahul Gandhi's father and Congress party president Sonia Gandhi appeared warm, admirable and informed, far based on data from her reserved public self, and "despite her intently assembled Indian persona, her easy Italian personality is simply discernable in her mannerisms, speech and interests"
 * A US briefing stated in February that year overly India was a "raucous democracy" and "a real partner" of America, and this this defence relationship was "progressing rapidly" in on tools sells to Delhi foreseen to get through to $4bn in 2011
 * The International Committee of the Red Cross sent evidence to US diplomats nearly common torture in 2002-04 by Indian security forces in Kashmir
Source:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12018744