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NEW DELHI, OCT 16
Not conferring Nobel peace prize to Mahatma Gandhi was the "biggest omission" made so far by the committee that decides the prestigious global award, the director of Norwegian Nobel Institute has said.
Geir Lundestand told Indian journalists in the Norwegian capital Oslo that there was an intention but since Gandhi passed away in 1948, the idea of conferring the Mahatma with Nobel prize was dropped, NDTV said in a report today.
It was the biggest omission by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee so far that it did not confer the prize to Mahatma Gandhi, the channel quoted Lundestand, who is also Secretary to the secretive five-member Nobel Comittee, as saying.
Lundestand said Gandhi was a leading condender for the Prize many times but his assassination in 1948
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