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SHILONG: In the run-up to the assembly election, Christian-majority Meghalaya saw Congress president Rahul Gandhi and Prime Minister Narendra Modi fighting a pitched battle over religion. UDP will be the second largest constituent in the new coalition government to be led by National People's Party president Conrad Sangma. "Paul Lyngdoh, working president of United Democratic Party (UDP), said, "Congress raised the Hindutva issue prior to the election to deflect attention from the core areas of development in which they have failed." "Regional parties in the northeast were never close to Congress which failed to keep them in good humour. When Father Alexis Prem Kumar was abducted by Taliban in 2015, we rescued and united him with his family members..