Maharashtra: With just a few days to go for Maharahstra Assembly elections, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Friday submitted his resignation to Governor CV Rao after the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) broke ties with Congress and pulled out of the state government. Chavan's government had been reduced to a minority after the NCP pulled out.
Chavan drove down to Raj Bhavan this evening and submitted the resignation of his government to Governor C Vidyasagar Rao, official sources said.
It was not immediately known if he has been asked to continue in a caretaker capacity or the state will be brought under a brief spell of President's rule before the Assembly elections are held next month and a new government sworn in.
Chavan had called on the Governor earlier in the day too and apprised him of the political developments.
Chavan on Thursday informed that the Congress will contest the elections along with Mulayam Singh's Samajwadi Party.
Earlier, NCP leader and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar said that he would meet the Governor and submit his resignation and fomally withdraw his party's support to the state government.
In its press conference, the NCP claimed that the Congress had ignored them in the alliance. They asserted that the CM's position has always been held by the Congress in the 15-year-old alliance and they had demanded a change.
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