{"id":81188,"date":"2020-11-28T17:53:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T12:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=81188"},"modified":"2020-11-28T21:16:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T15:46:58","slug":"photo-predating-farmer-protests-viral-as-muslim-man-disguised-as-sikh-farmer-during-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/photo-predating-farmer-protests-viral-as-muslim-man-disguised-as-sikh-farmer-during-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo predating farmers protest viral as Muslim man ‘disguised’ as Sikh farmer during protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

Farmers have been protesting against the union government’s three new agricultural laws. Thousands of protesters from Punjab and Haryana were finally allowed to enter Delhi on Friday after heavy police security attempted to stop them using force.<\/span><\/p>\n

Social media is rife with supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) promoting misinformation around the protests to discredit the farmers. Many have posted a picture of a man wearing a green turban and claimed that a Muslim man disguised as a Sikh took part in the agitation. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2014 Shalabh Mani Tripathi (@shalabhmani) November 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kunwar Ajay Pratap Singh, a Twitter user who is followed by <\/span>Prime minister Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah<\/span>, shared the picture and questioned, “He is a farmer?” He also attached a screenshot of the man’s Facebook profile which shows that his name is Nazeer Mohd. <\/span>(Archive link<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u092f\u0939\u0940 \u0915\u093f\u0938\u093e\u0928 \u0939\u0948?? pic.twitter.com\/BI9gWFSPUT<\/a><\/p>\n

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From the Twitter handle @AndColorPokeT, it received over 19.000 likes.<\/p>\n

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Another Twitter user <\/span>Abhimanyu Tyagi shared these images. According to his Twitter bio, Tyagi is State Secretary BJP Delhi Youth Morcha. \u201cNazeer Mohammad turn into Navdeep Mohanpuria,\u201d he wrote. (Archive link<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is how sponsored protests work!! Nazeer Mohammad turn into Navdeep Mohanpuria pic.twitter.com\/oTvfGRtQO4<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Abhimanyu Tyagi (@Abhiemanyu) November 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Facebook user Manoj dave<\/a> (archive link<\/a>) and the page India272+<\/a> also shared the set of images (archive link<\/a>). Several others on the social media platform have promoted a similar claim (1<\/a>,2<\/a>,3<\/a>,4<\/a>,5<\/a>,6<\/a>).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n