Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday described the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election results as “a little down” for his party. The Congress won seven out of the 403 seats in the state Assembly. “In opposition, you have ups and downs. We had a little down in UP, we accept it,” he said.

“Out of five states, BJP won two, we won three,” Gandhi said. “In two of the states we won, democracy is being undermined by them, using financial power and money.” He was speaking about Manipur and Goa, where even though the Congress has got more seats than the BJP, but the saffron camp has managed to secure majority seats through alliance partners.

“Our fight with the BJP is an ideological fight,” Gandhi said on Monday. “What the BJP has done in Manipur and Goa is their ideology-and that is what we are fighting.” Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, however, dismissed Gandhi’s allegation. “All these allegations [BJP using financial power] are baseless,” he said.