NEW DELHI: To ensure that true stories about the protest reach people across the country and the world, Kisan Morcha has set up an official IT cell called
Kisan Ekta Morcha
, which is available on all
social media platforms
.
Baljeet Singh Sandhu, vice-president of Majha Kisan Committee, told TOI, “These official pages were launched on Thursday. We held a meeting with all members of the 37 unions and everyone felt it would be right to have such platforms. The message going across to people about the meeting with the government was that farmers were being adamant and not agreeing to the changes proposed to the three farm acts. We needed to tell the full truth.”
Interestingly, the members of the IT cell are all volunteers consisting of 36 people. “We made an announcement from the stage about launching the platform and asked whoever knew about IT, social media and digital marketing to come forward and help. That is how the team was formed,” said Sandhu. The social media accounts exist on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Snapchat.
Narrating the story behind the Snapchat account, Sandhu said, “A 16-year-old boy came to us and showed videos and photos that he had made on Snapchat. He insisted that there should be a page on that platform too, which is used a lot by people outside the country.”
Within just a day, all social media pages have garnered a lot of followers. On Twitter, there are 46,700 followers, while there is a similar number on Instagram. The platforms would also be used to spread awareness among the masses about the three agri laws. To educate people about the pages, large kiosks were placed on Friday near the stages giving all their details.
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