.IN INDIA NATIONAL elections are looming. Citizens are actually expected to go to the surveys in April and May. Narendra Modi, the prime minister, plans to win a third phrase in workplace. Therefore he has actually been playing up his religious dedication. On January 22nd Mr Modi commenced a brand-new temple to Ram, in Ayodhya, a north area felt through devotees to be that Hindu god's place of origin. The holy place was actually built on property formerly filled through a centuries-old cathedral, which was dismantled through a Hindu-nationalist crowd in 1992. Resolving a group of fans after the ceremony, which marked the unofficial beginning of his campaign for re-election, Mr Modi claimed the brand-new building and construction was actually "certainly not only a magnificent holy place" but "a temple of India's dream, ideology as well as instructions". What did he mean?