.IN INDIA NATIONAL vote-castings are nearing. Citizens are expected to head to the polls in April as well as May. Narendra Modi, the head of state, wishes to win a 3rd term in office. To that end he has been actually highlighting his religious devotion. On January 22nd Mr Modi commenced a brand new temple to Ram, in Ayodhya, a north city strongly believed by followers to be that Hindu god's birth place. The holy place was built on land recently filled by a centuries-old mosque, which was actually torn down through a Hindu-nationalist mob in 1992. Addressing a crowd of supporters after the ceremony, which noted the off the record start of his campaign for re-election, Mr Modi stated the new construction was actually "not simply a supernatural holy place" but "a temple of India's dream, theory as well as instructions". What performed he imply?