Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee will resign late afternoon today from his post to contest Presidential elections.
Mukherjee said he will submit his resignation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at around 4:30pm.
“I will put in my papers around 4.30pm. I will be leaving office around 4.30pm and after meeting Prime Minister, I will be leaving for home,” he told reporters outside his North Block office here.
—-PTI