Siddaramaiah submitted resignation to Governer

Bengaluru, May 16: Following his defeat in Karnataka polls Chief Minister Siddaramaiah submitted his resignation to the governor of state -Vajubhai R. Vala.

"Though the governor accepted Siddaramaiah's resignation, he asked him to continue in the post till the formation of the new government,"said an official of the Chief Minister's Office .

Siddaramaiah submitted the resignation letter to Vala when he visited Raj Bhavan in the evening after the poll mandate, and offered party's support to the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) for forming the new government.

Of the 222 assembly constituencies, the BJP won 104, the Congress 78 and the JD-S 38.