Claim: Protesting farmers in Punjab blacken the Hindi language signboards on National Highways.
Fact-check: 2017 visuals of Sikh activists defacing Hindi signboards falsely linked to ongoing farmers' protest - FACTLY
Verdict: photos shared in the post are related to the sikh activists' rally conducted in punjab during october 2017, demanding precedence for punjabi language on the signboards. sikh activists conducted this massive rally along bathinda-faridkot national highway. these images and video shared in the post have nothing to do with the ongoing farmers' protests. hence, the claim made in the post is false.
Organisation: FACTLY
Author: Dilip Kumar Sripada
Date published: 2021-01-12T11:19:58