No, Jagdeep Dhankhar Did Not Resign a Day After Talking About Farmers’ Issues

The video of Dhankhar talking about farmers is from an event held in December 2024 and not a day before he resigned.

An old video of former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar is being shared to falsely claim that it shows him making a statement about farmers' issues a day before he resigned.

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A video showing former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar speaking to the agricultural minister from a stage, where he asks about the plight of farmers and how their issues were going to be addressed, is being shared on social media.

The claim: The video is being shared to claim that it shows Dhankhar targeting the government about farmers' condition in India a day before his surprise resignation on 21 July 2025.

An archived version of this post can be seen here.

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The Aam Aadmi Party's Madhya Pradesh wing also shared this claim on their Facebook page.

Is it true?: No, the claim is misleading.

• The video dates back to December 2024 and shows Dhankhar speaking at the centenary day celebrations of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research - Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology (ICAR-CIRCOT).

How do we know?: A keyword search using the first line of Dhankhar's speech in the video led us to an X post on the Vice President of India's official account.

• The post carried a longer version of the video and was published on 3 December 2024.

• In the clip, Dhankhar can be heard talking about India's growth, talking about Prime Minister Narendra Modi positively, and asking why despite all of this, "the farmer is stressed?"

• He goes on to talk about how farmers should get the right price of their crops, calling them helpless.

• After this, he says the statement heard in the viral video, where he talks to the agriculture minister, urging him to ensure that the promises made to farmers are fulfilled.

• The full video of his speech at the centenary foundation day of ICAR-CIRCOT was shared on the official YouTube channels of Sansad TV and the Vice President of India, which were also published in December 2024.

• Nowhere throughout the video does Dhankhar criticise the government or PM Modi.

• The section of his speech where he makes the statement in the claim starts at the 17:11-minute mark of this video.

Conclusion: An old video of former VP Jagdeep Dhankhar is being shared with the misleading claim that it shows him making a statement about farmers' issues a day before he resigned.

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