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"We are taking the Meghalaya election very seriously. The difference between Congress and BJP is that while the saffron party wants only the lotus, we want all the flowers to bloom." It is not an ordinary election because polls this year will witness a fight between two ideologies. This will be a fight to ensure the survival of democracy and secularism," Gogoi told reporters here on Saturday.Alleging that the saffron party wants to impose its cultural politics of homogeneity, Gogoi added, "Meghalaya is a state full of diversities. But the BJP wants to impose their culture by dictating what food to eat, which clothes to wear and whom to marry..