Gita Press Awarded Gandhi Peace Prize: Gita Press Gorakhpur will be awarded the Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2021. The Gandhi Peace Prize is an annual award instituted by the Government of India. The award was instituted in the year 1995 on the occasion of the 125th birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, as a tribute to his ideals. Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has criticized the decision to award the Gandhi Peace Prize to Gita Press. Information has been received from sources that the Congress party is angry with Jairam Ramesh’s tweet.
Jairam Ramesh has opposed the award of Gandhi Peace Prize to Gita Press. He compared the award of Gandhi Peace Prize to Geeta Press with Savarkar and Godse.
Why is Congress angry with Jairam Ramesh’s tweet?
Jairam Ramesh tweeted, “The Gandhi Peace Prize for 2021 has been awarded to the Gita Press in Gorakhpur which is celebrating its centenary this year. There is an excellent 2015 biography of the organization by Akshay Mukul in which he writes about the Mahatma. traces its stormy relations with and their ongoing battles with them over their political, religious and social agendas. The verdict is actually a travesty and rewards Savarkar and Godse.”
Information has been received from sources that some senior Congress leaders are angry with Jairam Ramesh’s tweet in protest against the Gandhi Peace Prize to Geeta Press. According to a senior Congress leader, Jairam Ramesh’s statement regarding Geeta Press is unnecessary. Gita Press has played a big role in the propagation of Hindu religion. Jairam Ramesh should have had an internal discussion before making such a statement.
Geeta Press completes 100 years
Gorakhpur-based Geeta Press was established in the year 1923. Gita Press is one of the largest publishers in the world. It has published 41.7 crore books in 14 languages, including 16.21 crore Shrimad Bhagavad Gita books. The special thing is that this organization never took advertisements for its publications to earn money.
Along with the Gandhi Peace Prize, Geeta Press is to be honored with an amount of one crore rupees. But Geeta Press Management has refused to accept the honorarium of one crore. This was said by Dr. Lalmani Tiwari, manager of Geeta Press.
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