India, April 5 -- Nearly four years after his death, a statue of Virbhadra Singh, the six-time chief minister of Himachal Pradesh, will be installed at the Ridge in Shimla on his birth anniversary on June 23.

Announcing this at a press conference on Saturday, state PWD minister and Virbhadra's son Vikramaditya Singh said that the statue of the longest-serving chief minister of the state would be installed next to the bust of Himachal Pradesh's first CM Yashwant Singh Parmar in Daulat Singh Park on the Ridge.

Virbhadra Singh, a scion of the erstwhile Rampur-Bushahr royal family, had died on July 8, 2021, after prolonged illness.

At present, the Ridge has five statues. They are of Mahatma Gandhi, former PMs Indira Gandhi and Atal Bihari ...