Mamata Banerjee resigns, Mukul Roy to be new Railway Minister

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who is set to take over as West Bengal Chief Minister on Friday, resigned as Railway Minister on Thursday.

Railway sources said Banerjee sent her resignation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Mukul Roy of Trinamool Congress will be Minister of State, Railways in place of Mamata Banerjee.

Banerjee took over as Railway Minister of UPA-II government in May, 2009. She had also held the ministry for less than two years in the NDA government.

Banerjee, who engineered the landslide victory of the Trinamool Congress-Congress combine, will be sworn in as West Bengal's first woman Chief Minister on Friday.