DMK Ministers to Quit Union Cabinet today

DMK Ministers to resighn today

A day once asserting it absolutely was pulling out of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, the DMK said its six ministers can submit their resignations Monday.

Senior DMK leader and former union minister T.R. Baalu told reporters that the ministers can tender their resignations to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

The DMK has 2 cupboard ministers - Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister M.K. Alagiri and Minister for Textiles Dayanidhi Maran - and 4 junior ministers S.S. Palanimanickam (Finance), S. Jagathrakshakan (Information and Broadcasting), D. Napolean (Social Justice and Empowerment) and S. Gandhiselvan (Health and Family Welfare).

Tamil Nadu's ruling party Saturday pulled out of the UPA government once failure to succeed in a seat-sharing pact with the Congress for the April thirteen assembly polls.

A DMK statement said that it'll currently offer 'issue-based support' to the UPA government. The DMK has eighteen Lok Sabha MPs.

According to Baalu, the Congress has not approached the DMK when the latter's call to withdraw unconditional support.

Meanwhile, PMK president G.K.Mani said Sunday that Congress' absence won't have an effect on the poll prospects of the DMK-led front.

On Sunday, PMK submitted an inventory of constituencies that it'd wish to contest. The party can contest thirty one of the 234 assembly constituencies as a part of the DMK-led front.