Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Brinda Karat has lambasted RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale for his comments where he said that religious conversion and infiltration are causing "population imbalance" in India. Karat alleged that RSS was misleading the country.

Hitting out at RSS, the left leader Karat told ANI that everybody knows that the community-wise fertility rate, as per the latest National Family Health Survey shows, saw the sharpest decrease among the Muslim community.