The Gandhi Peace Prize for 2021 being awarded to the Gorakhpur-based Gita Press hasn't quite gone down well with the Congress.

Senior party leader Jairam Ramesh took to Twitter to slam the Centre over the decision taken by the jury headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Pointing a finger at the "stormy relations" the publisher had with Mahatma Gandhi, Ramesh said, "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."

But the Bharatiya Janata Party just can't have enough of heaping praise on Gita Press for the achievement.

BJP president J P Nadda earlier today congratulated the publisher for being honoured with the prestigious award and said its contribution for the last 100 years in the preservation and flourishing of India's 'Sanatan culture' is commendable.

The Gandhi Peace Prize for 2021 will be conferred on Gita Press, Gorakhpur, in recognition of its "outstanding contribution towards social, economic and political transformation through non-violent and other Gandhian methods", Union Culture Ministry announced on Sunday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi also took to Twitter on Tuesday to say: