evidence: Home / India News / Fact check: Did Asle Toje call PM Modi biggest contender for Nobel Prize? Fact check: Did Asle Toje call PM Modi biggest contender for Nobel Prize? [...] Media reports early on Thursday quoted deputy leader of the Nobel Prize Committee, Asle Toje, as saying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the "biggest contender for the Nobel Peace Prize". Reports suggested that Toje said India is becoming wealthy and influential under the leadership of Modi.