Shimla, Aug. 4 -- The Himachal Pradesh BJP president Rajiv Bindal on Tuesday launched a blistering attack on Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, accusing him of being rattled by the BJP's performance in the recent Panchayati Raj and Urban Local Body elections and asserting that the people had already decided to remove the Congress government from power in the 2027 Assembly elections.

Speaking to reporters after paying tributes to Himachal Pradesh's first Chief Minister, YS Parmar, on his 120th birth anniversary in Shimla, Bindal dismissed Sukhu's recent prediction that 16 BJP MLAs would not return to the Assembly, saying the Chief Minister was making "political prophecies" to divert attention from his government's failures.

"The Chie...