Dharamshala, Oct. 20 -- Bharatiya Janata Party Himachal Pradesh chief Rajeev Bindal, on Monday, said that factionalism and internal contradictions within the Congress have now become evident after chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, state Congress president and other party leaders skipped the unveiling ceremony of former chief minister Virbhadra Singh's statue in Sarahan.

Bindal, while addressing media persons in Shimla, alleged that the chief minister and other Congress leaders had spent the past four years accusing the BJP of internal divisions to divert public attention from the shortcomings of their own government.

"The absence of the chief minister and the state Congress president from the unveiling ceremony of former CM Virbhad...