Under fire NCP minister Manikrao Kokate stripped of Agriculture Ministry portfolio; Dattatray Bharne given charge Mumbai, Aug 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Minister Manikrao Kokate, who was under fire for playing rummy in the Maharashtra State Council and calling the state government a "beggar", has been removed from the Agriculture department on Thursday, to avoid further embarrassment to the party and the BJP-led MahaYuti government. He has been allocated the departments of Youth, Sports, Minority Affairs and Auqaf.

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