Secularism European Concept, Don’t Need It In India”: Tamil Nadu Governor

New Delhi: 

A comment by Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi on the origin and meaning of secularism has raised a huge row, with leaders of the Congress and other parties calling it an “irresponsible” remark, coming from a person who occupies an important constitutional post.

Mr Ravi, at a public event in Tamil Nadu’s Kanniyakumari, described secularism as a concept that came from distant lands in the West, which, he added, does not have a home in India.

“A lot of frauds have been committed on people of this country, and one of them is that they have tried to give a wrong interpretation of secularism. What does secularism mean? Secularism is a European concept, and it is not an Indian concept,” Mr Ravi told the gathering.