.IN INDIA NATIONAL political elections are looming. Electors are expected to head to the surveys in April as well as May. Narendra Modi, the prime minister, expects to gain a third phrase in workplace. To that end he has actually been playing up his spiritual devotion. On January 22nd Mr Modi commenced a brand new temple to Ram, in Ayodhya, a northern metropolitan area strongly believed through enthusiasts to be that Hindu the lord's native home. The holy place was improved land recently utilized by a centuries-old cathedral, which was taken apart by a Hindu-nationalist mob in 1992. Attending to a crowd of proponents after the service, which noted the informal beginning of his campaign for re-election, Mr Modi asserted the new building was "not simply a divine temple" but "a holy place of India's vision, ideology and path". What did he suggest?