India, Feb. 11 -- Intensifying its attack on the Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu-led Congress government over the state of finances, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday alleged that the dispensation was shifting responsibility instead of correcting its own fiscal mismanagement.

BJP state co-incharge Sanjay Tandon accused the government of hiding its administrative and governance failures by unfairly blaming the Union government. He clarified that the discontinuation of the Revenue Deficit Grant (RDG) was not a sudden blow but a phased, pre-declared recommendation made by successive finance commissions.

"If we compare Himachal with Uttarakhand-two hill states with similar geography and constraints-Uttarakhand has performed significantly...