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‘Appeasement policy makes it difficult to contain terrorism’

SHIMOGA: National Secretary of BJP Yuva Morcha and former MLA Sunil Kumar said here on Thursday that the reluctance among people to curb terrorism had resulted in the growth of terrorism-related activities in rural areas of India.

Speaking after inaugurating “Yuva Jodo”, a youth convention on terrorism, naxalism and religious conversions organised by the district unit of the BJP, he noted that terrorism, which started in Jammu and Kashmir, was being witnessed in Karnataka also.

He said that in the past 50 years, nearly 60,000 citizens lost their lives due to terrorism.

He regretted that the policy of appeasement of minorities and reluctance among the ruling parties in the post-Independent era to check the spread of terrorism had now made it difficult to keep terrorism under check.

On naxalism, Mr. Kumar said that some elements in the universities of Mysore, Mangalore and Kuvempu were reportedly associated with naxal activities in the Malnad region.

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