.IN INDIA NATIONAL vote-castings are looming. Citizens are actually counted on to go to the surveys in April and May. Narendra Modi, the head of state, wishes to succeed a 3rd term in office. Therefore he has been actually playing up his religious dedication. On January 22nd Mr Modi inaugurated a new temple to Ram, in Ayodhya, a northern area thought by followers to be that Hindu the lord's place of origin. The temple was built on property recently utilized by a centuries-old mosque, which was actually dismantled by a Hindu-nationalist mob in 1992. Dealing with a crowd of supporters after the ceremony, which denoted the informal beginning of his campaign for re-election, Mr Modi professed the brand-new building was "not only a divine temple" however "a holy place of India's sight, approach and direction". What did he imply?