Shimla, March 22 -- Himachal CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu lashed out at the BJP for "fiscal mismanagement and pushing the state into debt trap" while replying to the four days debate on budget. Sukhu, while speaking in the assembly on Friday, said that the BJP government received liberal grants of about Rs.68,000 crore from the Centre in form of GST compensation and revenue deficit grants but "instead of repaying the debts and clearing the liabilities, it utilised the funds on freebies".

Sukhu said the BJP government raised loans worth Rs.40,352 crore during five years but did not pay the arrears of revised pay and pensions to the employees. Sukhu said the reduction in RDG and lowering the borrowing limit caused a loss of Rs.3000 crore to t...