The amount of debt for Gujarat, announced by the state government in Gujarat Vidhan Sabha was different than the number presented in the Lok Sabha later, alleged Congress on Tuesday, questioning the numbers presented by Gujarat Finance Minister Kanu Desai.

The Gujarat Pradesh Congress alleged that the ‘lies of the double engine BJP government in Gujarat and the Centre have been exposed’.

Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee President Shaktisinh Gohil stated that the Gujarat Assembly has always had a tradition of truthful and transparent parliamentary functioning. However, the BJP government has shown in the Assembly that the total debt of the Gujarat state is ₹3,70,000 crores.

He alleged that this number was different from the number presented in Lok Sabha by the Central Government, which showed the debt of the state to be ₹4,43,753 crore.

Gohil added that the details given under the report ‘State Finance: A Study of Budget of 2023-24’ presented by the Reserve Bank of India in the Lok Sabha show that the debt of the state of Gujarat is continuously increasing.

In 2007, the state had a debt of ₹90,955.7 crore, which increased to ₹4,43,753.3 crore in 2023 and will increase to ₹4,94,435.9 crore in 2025.