New Delhi: Claiming that Congress president Sonia Gandhi becoming Prime Minister of India was against "national pride" because of her foreign origin, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Rajnath Singh has said his party will have no objection to her children Priyanka and Rahul Gandhi joining politics and getting elected to top posts of the country.

"Soniaji has given birth to Priyanka and Rahul Gandhi. We would not raise any finger on both of them if they enter politics and even if they were to attain the top position of the country," Singh, also Union Agriculture Minister, said participating in BBC's "Aapki Baat BBC Ke Saath" programme.

Asked why the BJP and the ruling alliance did not leave the question to be decided by the people of the country, Singh said, "I do not agree with this. See, this is a case of national pride. If this was the scene, then why did we drive the British out of the country?"

"The world may not like it, but it is a fact for us and the truth of the matter is that a person of foreign origin cannot be Prime Minister of our country. It is not that she has been in the country for generations. See, India is not a country where anyone can come and then aspire to be the Prime Minister after 10-15 years."

On former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh's re-entry into BJP, Rajnath Singh pointed out it is natural that he has expressed the desire to return to the party fold, saying, what has happened is a part of history, let us end all that and I now want to be in the party again.