.IN INDIA NATIONAL elections are actually nearing. Electors are actually counted on to visit the polls in April as well as May. Narendra Modi, the prime minister, intends to succeed a third term in workplace. To that end he has actually been actually playing up his spiritual commitment. On January 22nd Mr Modi commenced a brand-new temple to Ram, in Ayodhya, a northern urban area strongly believed by supporters to be that Hindu the lord's birthplace. The holy place was improved land earlier utilized by a centuries-old cathedral, which was taken down through a Hindu-nationalist crowd in 1992. Dealing with a group of supporters after the ceremony, which noted the informal begin of his campaign for re-election, Mr Modi asserted the brand new development was "not simply a spiritual holy place" yet "a temple of India's dream, theory and path". What performed he suggest?