Shimla, Feb. 11 -- With political exchanges intensifying in Himachal Pradesh over the Revenue Deficit Grant (RDG) and the state's financial condition, BJP's co-incharge for Himachal Pradesh Sanjay Tandon on Wednesday accused the Congress government of attempting to shift blame to the Centre to cover up its fiscal failures.

Addressing the media in Shimla, Tandon said the Congress-led state government was holding the Centre responsible for its own "financial inefficiency and mounting debt."

"The Congress government in Himachal is blaming the Central government in an attempt to hide its financial failures and rising debt. The phased withdrawal of RDG was a pre-decided process. Despite this, the state government neither focused on increasin...