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

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

He was a simple person, a soft spoken personality, with a reserved temperament. He summed up about his own life work himself 'from a lawyer I became a law breaker, and finally a law maker'.

There is at least one man who would not hesitate to take a poison cup from my hands, he is Rajendra Prasad.