Rajendra Prasad Quotes

He was a versatile personality. He was a great thinker, a philosopher, and a political activist

All through his political career he held coveted positions.

In 1934, he took the charge of providing relief to the victims of earthquake and also of heavy floods, an act which impressed Gandhi and Nehru and Jayapraksh Narayan provided him a helping hand in this effort.

He organized the much talked about Salt Satyagraha in the state of Bihar.

Coming from a scholarly family with complete spiritual background, he was a strict vegetarian, fully drenched in the Indian culture.

Four years after his historic meeting with Mahatma Gandhi in 1916 at the historic Lucknow Session of the Indian National Congress, he left his legal practice, resigned from the Senate and Syndicate of the Patna University and joined the historic non-cooperation movement.

He got very good opportunity to groom himself in various fields, and that too with rare distinction. Right from the beginning the destiny had been preparing him slowly and steadily for the highest office of the President of the Indian Republic – which he genuinely deserved.

He had been an outstanding student throughout his academic career…the qualities of leadership were very much visible from his earlier career as a student, when he established the Bihar Students Conference, which kept on holding its activities until the beginning of the non-cooperation movement.

He had a very rich background and belonged to a scholarly family.

He was the first President of India after country attained [[Indiasfreedom. He was considered the saint president of our country.

When it was announced that Rajendra Prasad was attending the inauguration of the Somnath Temple, Jawaharlal vehemently protested against his going to Somnath. But Rajendra Prasad kept his promise.

Nehru had advised Prasad against going to Somnath. He felt that this would be against the tenets of secularism.

BBC News:1950: India becomes a republic, BBC News, 26 January 2005

He was a key campaigner in the nationalist movement of Mahatma Gandhi, along with India's interim Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

We have got used to relying on precedents of England to such an extent that it seems almost sacrilegious to have a different interpretation even if our conditions and circumstances might seem to require a different interpretation.