The Congress has hit out at the Centre for awarding the Gandhi Peace Prize for 2021 to the Gita Press in UP’s Gorakhpur.
Taking to Twitter, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that the Gita Press had “stormy relations” with Mahatma Gandhi and that the decision to honour the organisation is “really a travesty and is like awarding Savarkar and Godse.”
“There is a very fine biography from 2015 of this organisation by Akshaya Mukul in which he unearths the stormy relations it had with the Mahatma and the running battles it carried on with him on his political, religious & social agenda. The decision is really a travesty and is like awarding Savarkar and Godse,” he said.
The Gandhi Peace Prize for 2021 has been conferred on the Gita Press at Gorakhpur which is celebrating its centenary this year. There is a very fine biography from 2015 of this organisation by Akshaya Mukul in which he unearths the stormy relations it had with the Mahatma and the… pic.twitter.com/PqoOXa90e6
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) June 18, 2023
The Gita Press which is celebrating its centenary this year is the world’s largest publisher of Hindu religious texts.
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