Lucknow: Five Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) ministers in the Uttar Pradesh government have resigned in line with the decision taken by the party after the resignation of its president Ajit Singh from the Union cabinet.

State RLD General Secretary Anil Dubey said on May 28 that resignations of all the five party ministers were sent to the Chief Minister's secretariat late on May 27.

"It is now up to Chief Minister Mayawati to take a decision on them," Dubey said.

However, the Chief Minister's Secretariat said that it had no information about the resignations.

A special emissary of Ajit Singh delivered the resignations to the secretariat, Dubey said.

The five RLD ministers in the Mayawati government had submitted their resignations to Singh in New Delhi after the party chief quit the Union Cabinet on May 24.

Singh then had said that he would forward their resignations to Mayawati in the next few days.

PTI