Nilekani to resign from UIDAI by March-end

February 21, 2014 22:29

UIDAI Chairman Nandan Nilekani today said he will resign from his job by March-end to contest Lok Sabha election on a Congress ticket.

Nilekani, whose name is doing the rounds for the Bangalore South constituency, however, did not say when he will join the Congress party.

"I will be there for a few more weeks. I will be stepping down by the end of March," Nilekani, who also co-founded the country's leading software services firm Infosys, told reporters.

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