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Jaipal Singh: “Modi might have made many mistakes but he did one thing right: if he had not controlled the Covid pandemic like he did, not only India, but the world would have been wrecked.”
How he was so sure of this? “I watched it on Republic Bharat.” https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/02/12/why-saini-farmers-in-uttar-pradesh-arent-supporting-farmer-protests
How he was so sure of this? “I watched it on Republic Bharat.” https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/02/12/why-saini-farmers-in-uttar-pradesh-arent-supporting-farmer-protests
Jagdish Saini, 39, a resident of Bijnor’s Kajipada, said the farmer protests in UP are a movement “led by those who grow sugarcane”. Ironically, Jagdish too is a sugarcane farmer with five hectares of land. A tractor cart full of the crop is parked outside his house.
“It has now become a political movement against the BJP, with the Left, Congress and the Rashtriya Lok Dal coming together,” Jagdish said. “If it was a genuine movement, we would have taken part in it.”
For most of our conversation, Jagdish sermonised against the protests, its alleged Khalistani connections, and how pop singer Rihanna and former adult star Mia Khalifa were paid to tweet in support of the agitation.
On the Khalistan point, I inquired about his source. “I saw it on Republic Bharat. Wait a minute, I made a video of it,” he said, glaring into his phone. “I record these segments so that I can prove it when I talk to others.”
A good ground report by @sighyush on the support PM Modi enjoys in Western UP despite the farmers protests and how propaganda TV channels like R Bharat have helped shape it. https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/02/12/why-saini-farmers-in-uttar-pradesh-arent-supporting-farmer-protests
