Patna, March 27 (Reporter) Bihar assembly witnessed an uproarious scene on the issue of the Direct Benefit ( DBT) scheme for the farmers, including sharecroppers. During the reply being made by the Cooperative Minister Prem Kumar to a question of CPIML member Virendra Kumar Gupta in the state assembly on Thursday, the opposition members had a strong heated exchange with the Minister. The opposition members protested against the reply of the Minister saying that Kumar was only highlighting the schemes of the NDA government of the centre instead of making a reply to the question. The Minister, apparently furious at the noise being created by the opposition, retaliated strongly asking the opposition to listen to his reply and said that he will not succumb to the pressures of the opposition. This led to the ruckus in the lower house and both the opposition and the Minister entered into sharp debate. The speaker, Nand Kishor Yadav, pacified them after which the situation was brought under control. Through his supplementary, Gupta tried to draw the attention of the house towards the issue that 70 percent of the farming in Bihar was being done by the sharecropper farmers who were not getting the benefits of the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme through DBT. He questioned the government whether it would send a proposal to the centre to give the benefit of Kisan Samman Nidhi to sharecropper farmers? To this, the Minister said that 2 crore 4 lakh farmers including 1 crore 78 lakh sharecropper farmers and 26 lakh non-sharecropper farmers were registered on the DBT portal. Through another supplementary, Gupta wanted to know the number of sharecroppers who got the benefit of the grant of the schemes through DBT. While responding, Kumar said that for the first time during the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government at the center, KCC was implemented for the farmers of the country and when the Modi government came to power, the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi was started. The opposition members, however, strongly objected to the reply. Satyadev RAM of CPIML said that the Minister was threatening the members whereas Gupta demanded from the Minister to tender an apology for using unparliamentary words. Bhai Virender of RJD said that a wrong precedent was being set...////...