Presidential polls: Pranab Mukherjee to resign as finance minister today

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will resign late Tuesday afternoon from his post to contest Presidential elections.

Mukherjee said he will submit his resignation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at around 4.30 pm.

"I will put in my papers around 4.30 (pm). I will be leaving office around 4.30 (pm) and after meeting PM, I will be leaving for home," Pranab Mukherjee told reporters outside his North Block office in New Delhi.