Punjab to Tikri: 50 students travel 300 km to join protest
The school s managing director, Ranjeet Kaur, said the students will stay here for at least two-three days after which other batches will arrive: We will stay in tractors and trolleys like other farmers. We know people here who have made arrangements for us. December 29, 2020 1:26:10 am
The students along with the school’s MD Ranjeet Kaur at Tikri on Monday.
Around 50 schoolgirls travelled 300 km from Kishangarh in Punjab and joined farmers at the Tikri border on Monday to extend their support to the protest. Dressed in their uniform, the students, mostly from classes XI and XII of Holy Heart Senior Secondary School, staged a march in the afternoon and raised slogans such as ‘Kisan Ekta Zindabad’.
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Kaur didn t drive a sedan or an SUV to the protest site. She drove a Jeep with five of her companions. Gone Viral: 62-yr-old woman drives a Jeep to Singhu border
The ongoing farmers protest against the farm laws passed by the centre has taken the country by storm.
For the past four weeks, agitating farmers of all ages have been protesting at several border areas of the national capital and are demanding repealing of The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, and The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act.
#ShameOnFacebook: Why are protesting farmers furious with Facebook?
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On Sunday, Facebook took down a social media page, and eventually restored it several hours later. The page in question belonged to the Kisan Ekta Morcha. Since then, outraged social media users have since taken to Twitter to call out Facebook. At the time of writing this article, #ZuckerbergShameOnYou and #ShameOnFacebook were trending topics on the microblogging platform, with nearly 30,000 posts.
It began on Sunday, when, amid the ongoing agitation, Kisan Ekta Morcha found its Facebook page unpublished . The handle had been publishing updates from the ongoing protests, and had even countered claims put forth by the BJP-led government in the recent past.
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The official FB page of Kisan Ekta Morcha was unpublished for a brief period of time on Sunday.
It was a routine check and block carried out by the social media s AI bot, the page was restored later.
New Delhi: The official page of Kisan Ekta Morcha on Facebook was unpublished for a brief period of time on Sunday evening.
It is believed to have been a routine which is carried out by the AI (Artificial Intelligence) where some words which are marked by the bot as inappropriate or is found to be in violation of the community standards . It could have been for one specific post or several which led to the page being blocked.