India, Aug. 3 -- Barely 24 hours after replacing Manikrao Kokate, shunted to another department for making a series of controversial remarks, the state's new agriculture minister Dattray Bharne landed in hot water himself. Following in the footsteps of his predecessor, Bharne embarrassed the state government while offering what many saw as dodgy advice to revenue officers in Indapur taluka in Pune on Friday.

"It is not those who play by the rules who are remembered, but those who break them for the greater good," said the NCP leader and three-time MLA from the Indapur assembly constituency.

Bharne's remark kicked up a row as he had been handed the agriculture department only a day earlier, ironically as a damage-control measure after Ko...