CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat hit out at Tamil Nadu governor RN Ravi on Monday for his comments on secularism, calling it a "shame" that someone with such views has been appointed to governor. Brinda Karat stated that this reflects the “RSS understanding” and warned that he might soon claim the Constitution is also a “foreign concept". RN Ravi sparked a row with his remark saying that secularism is a European concept that does not belong to India.

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