Road Transport and Highways Minister CP Joshi took over additional charge of the Ministry of Railways.

Mukul Roy was among the six ministers from Ms Banerjee’s party who submitted their resignation letters to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last evening.

The others who resigned are Saugata Roy, Sisir Adhikari, Mohan Jatua, Sultan Ahmed and Sudip Bandopadhyay.

While Mr Roy was a Cabinet minister, the rest were ministers of state.
The Trinamool quit the UPA over the government’s decisions to increase diesel prices, cap the supply of subsidised cooking gas to households, and allow foreign mega-stores like Wal-Mart to arrive in India.

Meanwhile, a day after Mamata Banerjee and her party, the Trinamool Congress, formally pulled out of the UPA,
President Pranab Mukherjee has accepted the resignation of all the six Ministers of Trinamool Congress.