Removing versioncolumn plugin and restarting jenkins makes jenkins UI unusable (showing exception below nodes in build executor status)

Manual installation of plugin made jenkins to start UI normally.

2022-08-14 04:58:01.263+0000 [id=23]    SEVERE  h.p.g.b.GlobalBuildStatsPluginSaver#reloadPlugin: Unable to read /local/jenkins/global-build-stats.xml
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.base/java.util.ArrayList.addAll(ArrayList.java:702)
        at hudson.plugins.global_build_stats.model.JobBuildResultSharder.load(JobBuildResultSharder.java:143)
        at hudson.plugins.global_build_stats.xstream.migration.AbstractMigrator.readGlobalBuildStatsPOJO(AbstractMigrator.java:35)
        at hudson.plugins.global_build_stats.xstream.GlobalBuildStatsXStreamConverter.unmarshal(GlobalBuildStatsXStreamConverter.java:159)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convert(TreeUnmarshaller.java:74)
Caused: com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.ConversionException:
---- Debugging information ----
cause-exception     : java.lang.NullPointerException
cause-message       : null
class               : hudson.plugins.global_build_stats.GlobalBuildStatsPlugin
required-type       : hudson.plugins.global_build_stats.GlobalBuildStatsPlugin
converter-type      : hudson.plugins.global_build_stats.xstream.GlobalBuildStatsXStreamConverter
path                : /hudson.plugins.global_build_stats.GlobalBuildStatsPlugin
line number         : 2
version             : not available
-------------------------------
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convert(TreeUnmarshaller.java:81)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.AbstractReferenceUnmarshaller.convert(AbstractReferenceUnmarshaller.java:72)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convertAnother(TreeUnmarshaller.java:68)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convertAnother(TreeUnmarshaller.java:52)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.start(TreeUnmarshaller.java:136)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.AbstractTreeMarshallingStrategy.unmarshal(AbstractTreeMarshallingStrategy.java:32)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.unmarshal(XStream.java:1421)
        at hudson.util.XStream2.unmarshal(XStream2.java:189)
        at hudson.util.XStream2.unmarshal(XStream2.java:160)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.unmarshal(XStream.java:1399)
        at hudson.XmlFile.unmarshal(XmlFile.java:196)
Caused: java.io.IOException: Unable to read /local/jenkins/global-build-stats.xml
        at hudson.XmlFile.unmarshal(XmlFile.java:199)
        at hudson.XmlFile.unmarshal(XmlFile.java:179)
        at hudson.Plugin.load(Plugin.java:271)
        at hudson.plugins.global_build_stats.GlobalBuildStatsPlugin.load(GlobalBuildStatsPlugin.java:102)
        at hudson.plugins.global_build_stats.business.GlobalBuildStatsPluginSaver.reloadPlugin(GlobalBuildStatsPluginSaver.java:99)
        at hudson.plugins.global_build_stats.business.GlobalBuildStatsBusiness.reloadPlugin(GlobalBuildStatsBusiness.java:395)
        at hudson.plugins.global_build_stats.GlobalBuildStatsPlugin$GlobalBuildStatsItemListener.onLoaded(GlobalBuildStatsPlugin.java:157)
        at jenkins.model.Jenkins.<init>(Jenkins.java:1036)
        at hudson.model.Hudson.<init>(Hudson.java:86)
        at hudson.model.Hudson.<init>(Hudson.java:82)
        at hudson.WebAppMain$3.run(WebAppMain.java:247)
2022-08-14 04:58:01.341+0000 [id=23]    INFO    hudson.lifecycle.Lifecycle#onReady: Jenkins is fully up and running
2022-08-14 04:58:07.591+0000 [id=12]    WARNING h.i.i.InstallUncaughtExceptionHandler#handleException: Caught unhandled exception with ID ecfb4869-aa8d-4579-81e4-6ce093ebd574
org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyTagException: jar:file:/local/jenkins/%25C/jenkins/war/WEB-INF/lib/jenkins-core-2.346.3.jar!/hudson/model/View/sidepanel.jelly:75:50: <st:include> org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyTagException: jar:file:/local/jenkins/%25C/jenkins/war/WEB-INF/lib/jenkins-core-2.346.3.jar!/lib/hudson/executors.jelly:41:70: <j:when> java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.TagScript.handleException(TagScript.java:719)
        at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.TagScript.run(TagScript.java:277)
        at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:95)
        at org.apache.commons.jelly.TagSupport.invokeBody(TagSupport.java:161)
        at org.apache.commons.jelly.tags.core.ForEachTag.doTag(ForEachTag.java:150)