There exists an urban legend that the Nizam Mir Osman Ali of Hyderabad had donated 5000 kgs of gold to the Indian government to help in Indo-China war.
It is also pertinent to mention that senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh also attended the release of a book that insinuated an RSS conspiract behind the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack at the India Islamic Cultural Centre.
In essence, Jawaharlal Nehru was a Bharat Ratna because he went where no Indian kid has ever gone before. He was free from comparisons with the proverbial Sharmaji ka beta