The government said there no data on the number of farmers who died during the year-long agitation during farm law protests.The Union Ministry s curt reply was that it has no record on the matter and hence the question of providing financial assistance does not arise.
Amaravati: Refuting the news article published by a vernacular media, Andhra Pradesh Minister of Agriculture Kurasala Kannababu clarified that the farmers' suicides registered by the government and those stated by NCRB are contradictory. At a press conference, Kannababu slammed a section of media for falsely interpreting the NCRB data on farmers suicides.