5 DMK ministers quit, PM accepts their resignations

March 20, 2013 23:15

After withdrawing support to the UPA government over the Sri Lankan Tamil issue, DMK's five representatives resigned from the Union Council of Ministers which were accepted by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh late tonight.

Singh, who forwarded the resignation letters to President Pranab Mukherjee, also allocated the charge of Chemicals and Fertilizers Ministry to Srikant Jena who is Minister of State in the same ministry.

The portfolio was till now held by DMK's M K Alagiri who submitted his resignation today, as was done by his other four colleagues - D Napoleon, S S Palanimanickam, S Gandhiselvan and S Jagatrakshakan.

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