Rejecting reports of a rift between him and Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday asserted that there was no truth in it as the two worked together almost on all issues.

"In all truthfulness, there is no difference of opinion between me and the Congress president," he told reporters on his way back from the five-day visit to Japan and Thailand.

"We work together on almost every issue and where consultations are needed, I consult the Congress president," he said. He was responding to a question about perception of a trust deficit and divergences between him and Sonia Gandhi. "This perception that on certain issues there were differences of opinion, there is no truth in that," he said.

He was also asked whether Sonia had nudged him against his wishes to get the resignation of Ashwani Kumar as Law Minister and whether he faced a tough situation when CBI director Ranjit Sinha named a Joint Secretary in the PMO as having made changes in the agency's affidavit to the Supreme Court on coalgate. The Prime Minister, however, did not spell out his response to this.

The Prime Minister indicated that a Cabinet reshuffle could be on the cards to fill the vacancies. "There are some vacancies. We are planning to fill these," he said.

PK Bansal quit as the Railway Minister earlier this month in the wake of bribery scandal involving his nephew and a Railway Board member. Ashwani Kumar also resigned as the Law Minister following a controversy over vetting of a CBI probe report on coal block allocation scam.

The portfolio of Railways has been given to Road and Highways Minister CP Joshi as an additional charge while that of Law has gone to Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal as an additional ministry. Besides, there are a number of other ministers holding more than one portfolios. — Agencies