Mamata Banerjee resigns as Railway Minister

Kolkata, May 19 (PTI) Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata
Banerjee, set to take over as West Bengal Chief Minister
on Friday, resigned as Indian Railway Minister on Thursday.
Railway sources said Banerjee sent her resignation to
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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.
Trinanool Congress General Secretary Mukul Roy,
currently Minister of State for Shipping, is being seen as the
front-runner for taking over the Railway Ministry.
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.