Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said the BJP's differences with Congress President Rahul Gandhi were "political and nor personal" in nature. Speaking at an interactive event at a management institute in Lucknow, his Lok Sabha constituency, Singh said the Bharatiya Janata Party always believed in differing on political and ideological issues and never took things to personal level.

Asked if Gandhi's increasing number of visits to temples was linked to the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls, Singh said one should ensure that politics was development oriented and driven by the mantra of 'sabka saath, sabka vikas'. When a student asked him on the growing perception that India was leaning towards the US, he said New Delhi's foreign policy was guided by the traditional credo "Na kahu se dosti, na kahu se bair" (Friend of none and enemy of none).