Chandigarh: In a controversial remark over farmers’ death at various protest sites, Haryana Agriculture Minister J P Dalal on Saturday said they would have died even if they had stayed back home.
Dalal made the remark in Bhiwani in response to a reporter’s query over the death of 200 farmers. Had they been at their homes, they would have died there also, Dalal said.
Listen to me, out of one to two lakh, do not 200 people die in six months? he asked in response.
Someone is dying of a heart attack and someone after falling ill, he added.
Several Punjab and Haryana farmers, participating in farmers’ agitation against the Centre’s three farm laws at various Delhi border points, have died of different reasons including cardiac arrest.
Hours after making the statement, the Haryana agriculture minister said he has seen twisted statements, attributed to him, on social media.
He said wrong meaning was given to his statements.
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