Pattali Makkal Katchi nominees in the United Progressive Alliance cabinet Anbumani Ramadoss and R Velu will on Saturday resign from their ministerial posts, party sources said in New Delhi.
Ramadoss (Union Health Minister) and Velu (Minister of State for Railways) will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday evening and hand over their resignations, the sources said.
The move comes two days after the party surprised all and decided to switch-over to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam-led alliance in Tamil Nadu for the Lok Sabha polls.
The PMK on Thursday said it would join the AIADMK-led front in Tamil Nadu, accusing Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam of 'humiliating' its party cadre.
The PMK also announced that the two Union ministers will resign in the next two days.
AIADMK allots 7 seats to PMK
AIADMK and PMK has entered into an alliance for the Lok Sabha elections in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, under which the latter would contest seven seats, including the lone seat from the Union Territory.
AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa made the announcement to the media after PMK founder Dr S Ramadoss called on her at her Poes Garden residence in Chennai on Saturday morning.
The PMK would also be given a Rajya Sabha seat for the 2010 biennial elections, she said.
She said the allocation of seats to other partners of the AIADMK led front -- MDMK, CPI-M and CPI -- would be announced in a day or two.
With PMK joining the front led by her party, the alliance had been strengthened and results would prove it was a formidable combination, Jayalalithaa claimed.
