.IN INDIA NATIONAL vote-castings are looming. Voters are counted on to go to the surveys in April and also May. Narendra Modi, the head of state, plans to gain a 3rd condition in office. To that end he has actually been actually playing up his spiritual devotion. On January 22nd Mr Modi inaugurated a brand-new temple to Ram, in Ayodhya, a northern metropolitan area strongly believed by fans to become that Hindu god's place of origin. The holy place was actually built on property earlier occupied through a centuries-old mosque, which was dismantled through a Hindu-nationalist mob in 1992. Taking care of a crowd of proponents after the service, which denoted the informal begin of his campaign for re-election, Mr Modi professed the new construction was actually "not merely a blissful temple" but "a holy place of India's sight, theory and instructions". What did he indicate?