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By Hazel Gandhi A video of a group of Sikh protesters clashing with the police in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district is being shared on social media falsely linking it to the ongoing farmers’ protest. BOOM found that the video predates the farmers’ protest and shows clashes near a Gurudwara over the hanging of a portrait of slain Sikh militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. Farmers from more than 300 unions, hailing from Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan, begun marching to Delhi in February 2024 to demand a law guaranteeing Minimum Support Price (MSP). According to reports, the police has d…