"When the time came to install the deity in the temple, as Sardar had passed away, I approached Rajendra Prasad and asked him to perform the ceremony, but added a rider to my invitation that he should accept it only if he was prepared not to fail us. My correspondence with the Prime Minister was no secret to Rajendra Prasad. He promised that he would come and install the deity, whatever the attitude of the Prime Minister, and added: ‘I would do the same with a mosque or a church if I were invited.’ This, he held, was the core of Indian secularism. Our state is neither religious nor anti-religious. My foreboding proved correct. 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.6"