Will submit my resignation to PM around 4.30 pm: Pranab

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

Mukherjee said he will submit his resignation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at around 1630 hrs. "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," he told reporters outside his North Block office here.