.IN INDIA NATIONAL elections are actually looming. Electors are anticipated to visit the polls in April as well as May. Narendra Modi, the prime minister, hopes to gain a third term in workplace. To that end he has been playing up his religious dedication. On January 22nd Mr Modi commenced a new temple to Ram, in Ayodhya, a north city thought by supporters to be that Hindu the lord's birthplace. The temple was actually improved property formerly occupied through a centuries-old mosque, which was actually dismantled through a Hindu-nationalist mob in 1992. Dealing with a group of advocates after the ceremony, which denoted the unofficial beginning of his campaign for re-election, Mr Modi asserted the brand new building was actually "not simply a divine holy place" yet "a temple of India's vision, theory and instructions". What performed he mean?