Shimla, July 24 -- Himachal Congress on Thursday criticised Union minister JP Nadda over his claim that an Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education examination paper was leaked during the tenure of the present Congress government in the state.

Nadda's statement came on Wednesday evening, while addressing a press conference.

Hitting back, health minister Dhani Ram Shandil and agriculture minister Chander Kumar have accused Nadda of deliberately misleading the people of Himachal through "false and politically motivated statements".

In a joint statement issued on Thursday, the ministers said, "During the previous BJP regime, recruitment examination papers had virtually become commodities for sale with question papers allegedly being auc...