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Union Minister for Road, Transport and Highways Dr C P Joshi have been given additional charge of Railway Ministry on Saturday a day after the resignation of Mukul Roy and other Trinamool Congress ministers.
According to Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesperson Venu Rajamony, Dr Joshi was assigned with the additional charge by President Pranab Mukherjee on the advice of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh.
He said the President also accepted the resignation of Mukul Roy and five other members of Trinamool Congress after the party, which has 19 MPs in the Lok Sabha, withdrew its support to the UPA government.
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