.IN INDIA NATIONAL vote-castings are impending. Citizens are expected to head to the surveys in April as well as May. Narendra Modi, the prime minister, wants to win a third condition in office. To that end he has been actually playing up his religious devotion. On January 22nd Mr Modi inaugurated a new temple to Ram, in Ayodhya, a northern metropolitan area strongly believed through devotees to become that Hindu god's native home. The temple was improved property earlier filled by a centuries-old cathedral, which was dismantled by a Hindu-nationalist crowd in 1992. Resolving a group of fans after the event, which noted the off the record start of his campaign for re-election, Mr Modi asserted the new construction was "certainly not simply a spiritual holy place" but "a holy place of India's vision, ideology and also instructions". What performed he mean?