.IN INDIA NATIONAL political elections are actually nearing. Citizens are anticipated to head to the polls in April as well as May. Narendra Modi, the prime minister, intends to gain a 3rd condition in workplace. To that end he has been playing up his religious commitment. On January 22nd Mr Modi inaugurated a brand new temple to Ram, in Ayodhya, a north area thought by devotees to be that Hindu the lord's birthplace. The holy place was actually improved property recently occupied by a centuries-old cathedral, which was taken apart by a Hindu-nationalist mob in 1992. Attending to a group of followers after the service, which marked the off the record start of his campaign for re-election, Mr Modi declared the new building and construction was actually "not simply a supernatural temple" yet "a temple of India's sight, philosophy and path". What performed he imply?