Bengaluru, Jan. 30 -- Karnataka CM Siddaramiah has laid the blame of pending contractor bills at the door of the BJP. A day after the Karnataka Contractors association alleged that they had around Rs 38,000 crore in dues, the BJP seized on the issue to slam the government.

However, CM Siddaramiah claimed that a large chunk of these bills were oustanding from the last tenure of the BJP led state government.

"The pending bills were left behind by the BJP. It is true that there are pending bills, but it was the BJP that left them," Siddaramiah said.

"Of Rs 38,000 crore, Rs 20,000 crore comes from the BJP government, while the rest comes from our government... A crore of bills in their reign itself. Now it has accumulated too much... We ha...