Mizoram Governor Kummanam Rajasekharan has resigned nine months into his job to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Kerala. He is likely to fight against Congress parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor from Thiruvananthapuram. "I have resigned as the party wished that I should be in Kerala. I also wished to be in Kerala and hence I have quit," Mr Rajasekharan told a TV channel in Kerala today, according to news agency IANS.