%u201CStop supporting terrorists%u201D Shri Ramchandra Gowda, former Minister for Science in the BJP-JD (S) Government of Karnataka, has appealed to the former Prime Minister, H.D. Deve Gowda to refrain from making statements, either in favour or against the suspected jehadi terrorists as the police is doing their job and it should be given free hand. It is to be noted that Shri Gowda had recently made a statement that poverty and unemployment are the root cause for the youth to take to terrorism. In the letter, dated February 24, Shri Ramchandra Gowda said: %u201CYou have been proved wrong, in the wake of the CoD police taking into custody a well-qualified, hitherto well-employed and perhaps, well-paid software techie on the charge of being an activist of Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), an organisation banned by the Union Government. It only means that this techie never lacked education, he was not poor and he was not unemployed%u2014the three criterion that you mentioned as cause for terrorism. If you still call the techie poor, then all well-meaning and right thinking people ought to know your definition of poverty. Does it mean that the techie is poor because every member of his family do not own houses, do not own large tracts of land and do not own flashy cars?%u201D, he asked. He further said it is not difficult to fathom as to why he took up the cause of alleged terrorists in the name of secularism. %u201CYou are downright pseudo-secular, for whom secularism is an euphemism for indu
