According to a report, a video circulated on social media shows the 46-year-old chief minister telling his audience that "Rabindra Nath Tagore returned his Nobel Prize in protest against the British."
Howwever, the fact is that Tagore had never returned the Nobel Prize he won for poetry in 1913. Deb could have been confused with Tagore denying Knighthood in protest against the Jalianwalla Bagh massacre in 1919. Deb made these remarks at a function in Udaipur to mark birth anniversary of Tagore.
Last month, after a series of controversial statements by him, Deb was summoned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who himself is facing the social media heat for messing up facts during the Karanataka election campaign speeches.