NEW DELHI: The Trinamool Congress on Friday afternoon formally snapped its ties with the UPA government as its ministers handed over their resignations to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

The six Trinamool ministers led by Mukul roy reached 7RCR to meet the Prime Minister and submit their resignations.

While Roy is a Cabinet minister, Saugata Ray, Sisir Adhikari, Mohan Jatua, Sultan Ahmed and Sudip Bandopadhyay are ministers of state.

Immediately after their meeting with the PM, the ministers will proceed to Rashtrapati Bhawan to hand over a letter withdrawing support to the UPA to President Pranab Mukherjee.

Speaking to reporters earlier in the day, Mukul Roy said the Trinamool Congress will launch nationwide protests against FDI in retail.

Roy dubbed the government decisions as anti-people and said the Trinamool Congress cannot support it.

On Wednesday, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee had announced her decision to withdraw support to the UPA protesting the Centre's decisions to hike diesel prices, withdraw subsidy on cooking gas and allow FDI in multi-brand retail.

source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com