Authors
Kushel HM is a mechanical engineer-turned-journalist, who loves all things football, tennis and films. He was with the news desk at the Hindustan Times, Mumbai, before joining Newschecker.
Claim
Alcohol being distributed to farmers amid the ongoing protests that has entered a fourth day.
Several farmers’ unions, including the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), had called for a nationwide strike on Friday, to press for their demands before the Centre.
The archived version of the tweet can be seen here.
Fact
Newschecker ran a reverse image search of keyframes of the video, which led us to this Facebook post, dated April 11, 2020, well before the three contentious farm laws were passed by the Centre in September 2020.
Similar posts can be seen here and here, both from April 2020, when the country was under a coronavirus-enforced lockdown. Also, farmers from Punjab, Haryana, and elsewhere had travelled to the outskirts of Delhi in November 2020 in a year-long protest against the three farm laws, which were repealed in 2021, confirming that the viral video is not linked to the earlier farmers’ protests too.
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Result: False
Sources
Facebook post, April 11, 2020
Facebook post, April 11, 2020
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Authors
Kushel HM is a mechanical engineer-turned-journalist, who loves all things football, tennis and films. He was with the news desk at the Hindustan Times, Mumbai, before joining Newschecker.
