Is this related to the current financial woes that this country is going through?
Due to recession, the economy contracting, much more in US and EU, exports have been declining in all sectors. Small scale industries which supply tools (among a few to name and employs a large section of unskilled workforce) to big industries have been the hardest hit. Big companies have the cash reserve to sustain as well as an experienced Management who invent innovative solutions to steer the company during a crisis. Small companies OTOH, flourish on orders from bigger companies and most of the time have a bank loan to attend too. In times of crisis, the only route they prefer and go for is the cost-cutting route, where-in they minimize production, lay-off employees, who mostly are unskilled or in some cases semi skilled. Management and sound HR policies are unheard of.
The mass of these out of work, unskilled workforce, being from a poor economic class, take resort to religion and booze to escape from the reality they face. This is where right wing organizations use them as fodder. Getting involved in riots, beating up women seems to be an easier option to vent out their frustations, while being promised by the ring leader that no harm would come to them or their family. Easily trapped, religion being the opium of the masses.
An apt example is of US Congressman Mr. Charles Wilson who was instrumental in the defeat of the Soviets in Afghanistan, aiding the mujahideens with as much as a billion dollars. But, US ----ed up the end game. US would not even grant a million dollars for re-construction of schools in post-war ravaged Afghanistan. When those mujahideens returned home, all they found were their wives, sons and families killed. Their villages napalm'd. Majority of those were below 40 years of age. They did not have any schools to go to. No decent work to attend to. Their frustrations coupled with US' short sightedness gave way to the hardline Islamic way of life.
"These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world....
... and then we ----ed up the end game." - Charlie Wilson.
In the long run, I don't think India would go the Afghanistan way. But with ineffective economic policies (read as policy paralysis), FII outflows, CAD and reducing GDP growth, social unrest is not impossible.
With the economy back into track, people would get absorbed into jobs again and would care less for stupid RW organizations.
