Pune, July 20 -- Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar faction) leader Prashant Sudamrao Jagtap on Sunday slammed Maharashtra's Agriculture Minister, Manikrao Kokate, after a purported video of him playing an online card game on his phone in the Legislative Assembly went viral. Jagtap termed the alleged act "an insult to the farmers."

The video was shared on social media by Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Rohit Pawar.

"Ever since Manikrao Kokate became the Agriculture Minister in Devendra Fadnavis' government, he has been making fun of Maharashtra's farmers," Jagtap told ANI.

"In the same session in which it was being discussed that farmers are committing suicide every day in Maharashtra, he was seen playing online rummy. Th...