Mumbai, March 4 -- Amid the ongoing controversy over the Beed sarpanch murder case in Maharashtra, state food and civil supplies minister Dhananjay Munde resigned on Tuesday from Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis's ministry.
"Munde has submitted his resignation to me. I have accepted his resignation and sent it to the governor for further action," said Fadnavis.
The Nationalist Congress Party-Ajit Pawar (NCP-AP) Minister Munde finally submitted his resignation after Valmik Karad, his close aide, was made an accused in the Beed Sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh murder case.
Since Karad's name surfaced in the murder case, leaders of the opposition alliance had been persistently demanding Munde's resignation.
The opposition had warned that if Mun...