New Delhi: Planning Commission Deputy Chairperson K C Pant has resigned after remaining on the post for five years.

Pant, also member of Cabinet Committee on Security, submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, on May 13 before the last Cabinet meeting, official sources said today (May 15, 2004).

The resignation came in the backdrop of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) failing to secure majority needed to form the Government, they said.