NEW DELHI: Delhi Police spent a total amount of Rs 7.38 crore until November 20, 2021 to provide security at various sites of the farmers’ protests against farm laws, the home minister informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
A day after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi put out a list of farmers who had purportedly died during the year-long agitation, MoS Nityanand Rao, in written reply to a question in the Upper House, chose to maintain silence on the number of such casualties. He said it was for the respective state governments to maintain such data since ‘public order’ and ‘police’ are State subjects.
