During the rough times of farmer protest going on in the capital city and other major parts of the country, many inappropriate videos are going viral that is linked in no particular way with the protest. The Farmer protest in several states of our country started rising around 9th August 2020 and still is an ongoing and hotly debated matter. The farmers form a major part of our population and Indian exports are uncompetitive, and imports have risen. These dysfunctions reflect the state’s inefficiencies, so when economists call for agricultural reform, they’re urging the state to shrink its role in agriculture. The government came up with 3 farm acts to protect the rights of the farmers. One law allows the establishment of private mandis—mandis that aren’t regulated by the government. In these marketplaces, traders don’t have to be licensed, and the government cannot claim the taxes it ordinarily levies to run its mandis. Another law enables contract farming so that companies can strike deals with farmers to plant and sell specific kinds of produce. The third law permits traders to stock agricultural commodities with fewer restrictions; the government can step in only during emergencies when prices rise so sharply that hoarding becomes a danger.
Recently, a video of men in khaki has become viral purportedly showing police official smashing a CCTV camera on a road is doing the rounds on social media, with a claim that it is from the ongoing farmers’ protest against the new farm legislation introduction in September 2020. However, the video found is said to be a video is from the anti-CAA protests in Delhi’s Khureji area, and the incident first came to light in February 2020. The farmers have been demanding the revocation of new farm laws which they consider to favor big corporates and are ‘anti-farmers’.
Ever since the farmers laid siege to the national capital, much fake news has been peddled on social media by both the supporters and opposers of the new farm laws.
