.IN INDIA NATIONAL political elections are looming. Citizens are anticipated to visit the polls in April and also May. Narendra Modi, the prime minister, expects to gain a 3rd condition in office. Therefore he has actually been playing up his spiritual dedication. On January 22nd Mr Modi inaugurated a brand-new temple to Ram, in Ayodhya, a northern urban area strongly believed by fans to become that Hindu the lord's birth place. The temple was built on property formerly occupied through a centuries-old cathedral, which was taken down by a Hindu-nationalist mob in 1992. Dealing with a group of supporters after the service, which noted the informal start of his campaign for re-election, Mr Modi professed the new development was "not merely a spiritual temple" yet "a temple of India's dream, theory as well as direction". What performed he suggest?