India, June 27 -- Union minister Bhagirath Choudhary is in focus over reportedly having received Rs.99.6 lakh in subsidy from his own ministry. On Saturday, he sought to clarify and said he was not hiding anything and that he received the government aid like thousands of other farmers.

Choudhary, a Minister of State in the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare, is in the middle of a row after a report in The Indian Express revealed that he received Rs.99,60,000 as subsidy through a scheme under his own ministry.

Interestingly, the report claimed that the subsidy amount to promote commercial farming was approved by a board in which Choudhary is ex-officio Vice-President.

Clarifying on the farm subsidy, Bhagirath Choudhary h...