Banning the Bajrang Dal isn't going to be as easy as it appears. We're not talking about Africa in the immedieate post-independence era, where any dictator can cocncot false charges against you and have you fast tracked through a kangaroo court and hanged before you know it.

The Hindu nationalists, even though predominantly loyal BJP supporters, still wield considerable influence in Mr Singh's coalition government, and for any indian government to retain power, they have to placate those who sympathise with right-wing Hindu doctrine. And they constitute a significant part of the electorate.

Plus, when you have immoral, hideous and uncivilzed antagonists like Narendra Modi in Gujarat mobilizing the masses by playing a right wing populist card which popularizes groups like the VHP, Shiv Sena etc, it isn't easy to neutralize them. It could open up the spectre of upheavals and communal riots.