'Not rummy, solitaire': Maha minister blames aide, ads; takes shot at Rohit Pawar

NEW DELHI: Maharashtra agriculture curate Manikrao Kokate has dismissed NCP(SP) Rohit Pawar's assertion that helium was playing rummy successful the assembly, clarifying that it was solitaire, an app helium said whitethorn person been downloaded by a staffer, and had really opened YouTube to cheque connected little location proceedings."Rohit Pawar has go addicted to playing rummy. It wasn't rummy, but solitaire connected my phone. Some PA oregon OSD indispensable person downloaded that crippled connected my phone... I had opened YouTube to spot what was going connected successful the little house," helium said."How does helium cognize what rummy is? I don't cognize what rummy is. He indispensable play it a lot, truthful helium thought I was playing it too. It was a solitaire game... 10 antithetic types of ads travel up connected YouTube... You person to ticker it for 30 seconds and you can't adjacent skip it," helium added.

The mentation came successful aft Pawar shared a video of Kokate which showed the curate playing a mobile crippled wrong the assembly."Since the Nationalist faction successful powerfulness can’t bash thing without consulting the BJP, countless cultivation issues stay unresolved. Even arsenic 8 farmers successful the authorities instrumentality their ain lives daily, it seems the Agriculture Minister, with thing amended to do, has clip to play rummy.Will these wayward ministers and the authorities perceive the hopeless plea of farmers demanding harvest insurance, indebtedness waivers, and terms support: 'Come to the fields of mediocre farmers sometime, Maharaj'?" Pawar said successful a station connected X.

Calling the video "shameful", Congress said, "This is Maharashtra Agriculture Minister Manikrao Kokate.In Maharashtra, astir 8 farmers are taking their ain lives each day, and he’s sitting successful the assembly playing games connected his mobile. Farmers are being ruined by fiscal hardship and mounting debt, but helium has nary interest oregon attraction for them."