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"Malala didn't deserve the Nobel Prize," spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said in a press conference.

By Curated by Nilanjana Gupta (Senior Web Journalist)

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Published: Tue 3 May 2016, 4:11 PM

Last updated: Wed 4 May 2016, 1:51 AM

Indian spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar got himself in a soup on Twitter when he reportedly stated that he rejected the Nobel Prize as he "only believes in working".
According to the Deccan Chronicle, he went on to criticise Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist for women's education, calling it a "political decision" to award the prize to her.
"Malala has done nothing to deserve a Nobel Prize," he allegedly made this remark in Latur over the weekend while he was on visit to the drought-hit state of Maharashtra.
Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai shared the Nobel Prize in 2014 with India's Kailash Satyarthi. At the age of 17, she became the youngest winner of the prestigious award. She has been a pioneer of girls' education. Yousafzai moved to UK after she was shot in the head by the Taleban in 2012 on her way to school.
The Deccan Chronicle quoted him as saying:

"I was in the past offered the Nobel Peace Prize, but I had rejected it as I only believe in working and not in being honoured for my work. We should always honour only to those who deserve it and I am totally against honouring Malala Yousafzai with the prize and it is of no use."
Soon after there was no end to the mockery on Twitter. But he tried to silence them all by saying that "the truth is bitter and hard to digest".
His Art of Living Foundation alleged that the Deccan Chronicle misquoted him and but it was too late.
 
This is not the first time that the spiritual leader has kicked off a controversy. He earlier faced the social media's ire for his decision to hold a mega cultural festival on the floodplains of Delhi's main river in March. 



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