.IN INDIA NATIONAL elections are impending. Voters are counted on to go to the polls in April as well as May. Narendra Modi, the head of state, expects to succeed a third term in office. To that end he has actually been actually highlighting his spiritual devotion. On January 22nd Mr Modi commenced a brand-new holy place to Ram, in Ayodhya, a north metropolitan area thought by devotees to become that Hindu god's place of origin. The temple was actually built on land recently utilized through a centuries-old mosque, which was actually dismantled through a Hindu-nationalist crowd in 1992. Addressing a crowd of followers after the event, which denoted the unofficial start of his campaign for re-election, Mr Modi stated the new building and construction was actually "certainly not simply a divine temple" but "a holy place of India's vision, approach as well as instructions". What performed he imply?