Shimla, Feb. 24 -- Former Chief Parliamentary Secretary and Congress MLA Sanjay Awasthi on Monday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a press conference and accused the party of misleading the public regarding the funding of the Bilaspur railway project.

Addressing the media in Shimla, Awasthi criticized the BJP for what he called "baseless and irresponsible statements" regarding financial allocations in the state.

Awasthi countered the BJP's claims that the Bilaspur railway project was being funded by the central government, asserting that the money being utilized was, in fact, from the Himachal Pradesh government's budget. He specifically called out Bilaspur's BJP MLA Trilok Jamwal for making what he termed a "ridiculous" stat...