Jaipur, June 29 -- Union minister of state for agriculture and farmers' welfare Bhagirath Choudhary came under fire from the Opposition after an English daily reported that he received a Rs.99.6 lakh subsidy under a horticulture scheme administered by his ministry. The report said that under the ministry's Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH), implemented by the National Horticulture Board (NHB), a cucumber cultivation project spanning 16,592 square metres of land in Rajasthan's Deedwana Kuchaman district, owned by Choudhary, was sanctioned a subsidy amounting to 50% of project cost in 2025. The subsidy was released in March. As minister of state, he is NHB's ex-officio vice president. The report added that Choudhary's ...