S M Krishna resigned on Wednesday
S M Krishna a senior Congress leader on Wednesday resigned as Maharashtra Governor after the party asked him to take the plunge in the fight against a resurgent BJP & a well-rooted JD.
Krishna who was a former Chief Minister of Karnataka also, met President Pratibha Patil at the Rashtrapati Bhawan & conveyed his decision to resign after just over three years in the gubernatorial post in Mumbai. A little later, he sent his resignation.
S M Krishna “I will go back to my roots in Karnataka”. S M Krishna’s return to Congress politics in Karnataka immediately sparked dissidence with his detractor & senior party leader C K Jaffer Sharief pointing out that it was the former Chief Minister under whose leadership the party’s tally of seats had been reduced from about 170 to 65 in the assembly elections.
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