.IN INDIA NATIONAL political elections are nearing. Electors are expected to head to the polls in April and May. Narendra Modi, the prime minister, hopes to gain a third term in office. To that end he has been actually highlighting his religious dedication. On January 22nd Mr Modi ushered in a brand new temple to Ram, in Ayodhya, a north urban area strongly believed by devotees to become that Hindu the lord's birthplace. The holy place was built on property previously filled by a centuries-old mosque, which was torn down through a Hindu-nationalist crowd in 1992. Taking care of a group of proponents after the service, which noted the off the record begin of his campaign for re-election, Mr Modi professed the new construction was actually "certainly not simply a supernatural temple" but "a temple of India's sight, theory and also instructions". What performed he indicate?