Shimla, March 12 -- Setting the tone of the budget session, Congress MLA from Fatehpur assembly constituency in Kangra district, Bhawani Singh Pathania during debate on the motion of thanks to the governor's address in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly lashed out at the previous BJP government, accusing it of leaving the state in a fiscal mess.

"I blame you (BJP) for the fiscal mess. You (BJP) were aware of the financial challenges but failed to do anything and failed to act proactively," said Pathania while accusing the former chief minister Jai Ram Thakur's government of financial mismanagement creating unnecessary fiscal hurdles for the current Congress government.

This is part of the strategy of the Congress to corner the BJP over the a...