NEW DELHI: The war of words over terrorism continued to heat up with BJP reminding Congress of a wikileaks revelation that Rahul Ganhdi had in a conversation with the US ambassador in 2010 spoken of radical Hindu groups posing a bigger threat than terror outfits like Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba.

BJP leader and Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad responded to Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad’s statement that home minister Rajnath Singh was trying to polarise society and divert attention from the government's failures by raking up the issue of 'Hindu terrorism' allegedly raised by Congress during the UPA regime.

“Congress party has not learnt right lessons (from these sacrifices). Had it done so, its flip-flop on terrorism would not have been there,” Prasad said, citing use of terms “saffron terror” and “Hindu terrorism” by former home minister, besides Gandhi's reported assertions.

Prasad quoted a news report to claim that Gandhi in a 2010 conversation with the then US ambassador had said “there was evidence of some support for Laskar-e-Taiba among certain elements in India's indigenous Muslim community, the bigger threat may be the growth of radicalised Hindu groups, which create religious tensions and political confrontations with the Muslim community”.