Chandigarh, July 30 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Union minister of state Ravneet Singh Bittu on Wednesday accused the Punjab government of pushing the state towards an unprecedented financial disaster by prioritising political optics over economic stability. In a press statement issued on Wednesday, Bittu said the state was no longer being governed with a vision for growth but run on borrowed money to sustain the ruling Aam Aadmi Party's politics and election-centric narrative. He said Punjab's outstanding debt was projected to reach a staggering Rs.4.47 lakh crore, taking the per capita debt beyond Rs.1.04 lakh. "This is not welfare. This is reckless financial mismanagement disguised as governance," he alleged. The BJP leader claimed that the Bhagwant Mann government converted Punjab into a state that borrowed to spend, borrowed to survive and borrowed to maintain its political narrative. "A government that cannot finance even routine expenditure without continuously approaching the market for loans has completely failed the test of fiscal responsibility," he added. htc...