Had the BJP-led Government not dependent on 22 party alliance at the Centre it would have obliged the RSS leaders by now. After all the ban has been lifted by the Gujrat Government with the permission of the Home Ministry at the Centre. What is surprising is that the allied parties still swearing by secularism have not even lifted a little finger against the fact that the Union Home Ministry has allowed the Gujrat Government to lift the ban. This, of course, has been assumption of many leftist theoreticians. Also, Gujrat at one time produced Gandhi, the greatest champion of communal harmony and yet today it is stronghold of communal forces.
Nothing moves in straight line as far as the social phenomenon is concerned.
It often adopts a convoluted pattern. Thus one has to seek explanation for phenomenal growth of BJP in Gujrat in various developments which have taken place there since independence. Gujrat society, one must remember, was at one time, highly feudalised society. There were large number of princes in this state until few decades ago, particularly in the Saurashtra region of Gujrat. It is quite powerful in this region even today and is weakest in the tribal areas of Gujrat and hence attacks by the members of the Sangh Parivar on the Dangs which is one of the powerful tribal areas.