Sonia Gandhi unveils statue of ex-Himachal CM Virbhadra Singh in Shimla

Senior Congress person Sonia Gandhi connected Monday (October 13, 2025) unveiled a statue of six-time Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh astatine Daulat Singh Park connected the historical Ridge Ground successful Shimla.

Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) chairperson Ms. Gandhi, accompanied by her girl Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, paid floral tributes to the precocious leader.

The six-foot-tall bronze statue is placed adjacent statues of notable leaders specified arsenic Dr. Y.S. Parmar, the archetypal Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Mahatma Gandhi and erstwhile Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Scion of the Rampur-Bushahr royal family, Virbhadra Singh archetypal took bureau arsenic Chief Minister connected April 8, 1983 and spent the adjacent 4 decades successful nationalist life, becoming the CM 5 much times. He died successful 2021 aft a prolonged illness.

Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, Deputy CM Mukesh Agnihotri, HPCC president and Virbhadra's wife, Pratibha Singh, arsenic good arsenic Congress leaders Priyanka Gandhi, Sachin Pilot, and Deepender Hooda were contiguous astatine the event.

State enactment successful complaint Rajni Patil and Congress person Rajiv Shukla besides attended the statue unveiling.

There was a immense turnout astatine the lawsuit and constabulary person beefed up information measures.