.IN INDIA NATIONAL political elections are nearing. Citizens are actually counted on to visit the polls in April and also May. Narendra Modi, the prime minister, expects to succeed a 3rd condition in office. Therefore he has been accentuating his theological devotion. On January 22nd Mr Modi ushered in a new holy place to Ram, in Ayodhya, a northern city felt by fans to become that Hindu god's birth place. The temple was built on property recently occupied by a centuries-old cathedral, which was actually taken apart through a Hindu-nationalist crowd in 1992. Dealing with a crowd of proponents after the ceremony, which noted the off the record start of his advocate re-election, Mr Modi professed the new building was actually "certainly not simply a divine temple" yet "a holy place of India's vision, theory and also direction". What did he mean?