After the Bharatiya Janata Party secured an astounding victory in the UP polls, Rahul Gandhi took to Twitter and congratulated Prime Minister and the BJP.

'I congratulate Shri Narendra Modi and the BJP on their victory in Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand,' Rahul tweeted.

And, Prime Minister Modi replied in a subtle yet witty way, quite representative of his persona at election rallies.

'Thank you. Long live democracy!' he tweeted, while quoting Rahul's aforementioned tweet.

The political banter between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi had escalated to different levels during the election campaign.

Politically-crucial Uttar Pradesh became a turf of well churned-out statements by the Congress and the BJP, which often mocked the grand old party's alliance with the Samajwadi Party. -- ANI