Synopsis: The TDP-led NDA government is in an unenviable position: For long, it has been accusing the previous YRSCP government of financial profligacy. However, the data, the current dispensation tabled in the Assembly, tells a different story.

The TDP-led NDA government in Andhra Pradesh seems to have scored a self-goal in the Assembly as well as in the state.

For a long time, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) hammered home a single political charge against YS Jagan Mohan Reddy — that he had buried the state under an unprecedented debt mountain of ₹10 lakh crore.

But figures placed in the Assembly — by the TDP-led government— exposed that claim as a political hyperbole.

The government’s statement on debts, tabled in the House by Finance Minister Payyavula Keshav, showed Andhra Pradesh’s

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