Most of the ardent followers of Mahatma Gandhi have won Nobel Peace Prize but its irony he never got one, the latest being President Obama to get this prestige, but again why Gandhi wasn’t able to get it even nominated for five times . Committees give different reasons for why Gandhi wasn’t given the honor.
Mahatma Gandhi showed the world that anything can be achieved by non violence, how can this be ignored. He was nominated in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947 and 1948. He was shortlisted thrice in final list too but committee gives their so called suitable reasons why he wasn’t selected as the recipient of Nobel Prize.
One of the committee member was also of the view that he was “No real politician or proponent of international law, not primarily a humanitarian relief worker and not an organizer of international peace Congress“
When Mahatma Gandhi was first nominated in 1937, the selection committee’s adviser Prof Jacob Worm-Muller was critical about him. “He is undoubtedly a good, noble and ascetic person -- a prominent man who is deservedly honored and loved by masses. There are sharp turns in his policies which can hardly be satisfactorily explained by his followers...He is a freedom fighter and a dictator, an idealist and a nationalist. He is frequently a Christ, but then, suddenly an ordinary politician,” he had commented, according to the Nobel Foundation.
Worm-Muller also quoted that he is not a consistent pacifist, his non violent policies are degenerating violence and anger.
Clearly the critics were able to find answers on whatever hypothetical background they kept their reasons, well talking about Mr. Obama isn’t it too early to give someone a peace Nobel Prize, whose scrutiny takes a hell lot mess to decide whether a person deserves it or not ,the commitee that is yet to realize the contribution of Gandhi for peace keeping had sorted out Obama's contibution pretty quickly . One thing I want to say if someone can achieve this via a small term work and if he/she happens to be in the most limelight job then I can say there are more American gentlemen who surely deserve Nobel Peace prize in future like Software Mogul BillG or Warren Buffet by donating money for Philanthrophic activites in developing nations .
The important thing that comes out after such award that by not honoring Gandhi with Nobel Peace Prize, the importance of Gandhi, his values, his legacy will never diminish though the authenticity of award like Nobel will go down.
[The Quotes of Jacob Worm Muller taken from national daily The Hindu]
