TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee and members of the treasury benches had a heated exchange in Lok Sabha on Tuesday over the stoppage of MNREGA funds for West Bengal. He also criticized Union minister Giriraj Singh, asking, \”you are a central minister, you are behaving like this…who made you minister?\” Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla asked members to address the chair instead of reacting to comments among themselves. Earlier, while replying to the debate on the Union Budget 2025-26, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman had said that 25 lakh fake job cards under MNREga were found and that funds meant for people at the grassroots had been \”looted\” by TMC cadres. The Trinamool Congress MP was questioning the Centre on why Bengal was \”deprived\” of MGNREGA benefits for three years and made these remarks. His remarks led to strong objections from treasury bench members. Union minister Arjun Ram Meghwal objected to the language used byBanerjee.