Stockholm, Oct 2 (bdnews24.com) � There is a long list of world leaders who were considered and debated at different points of time and yet never made it to the list, possibly reducing the weightage that the Nobel would have for many.
Of the misses, there was none more stark in its omission than that of Mahatma Gandhi. And the Nobel Committee now officially, for the first time in history, regrets it and accepts it was a mistake.
In Stockholm, Sweden, the executive director of the Nobel Foundation, Michael Sohlman, says that it was a mistake by the Norwegian Peace committee.
"The only missing laureate we had is Gandhi. It's a big regret that he did not get it (Nobel Prize), that's very clear," Solhman admits.
Gandhi was nominated five times for the Nobel but the Norwegian Nobel committee believed that the champion of non-violence could not be awarded because he was "neither a real politician nor a humanitarian relief worker".
