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Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa said he would resign today—the second anniversary of his government—as he spoke in the state assembly about his tenure 

"I will resign after lunch," he said in a tearful speech in which he talked about the "trial by fire" he had faced as chief minister.

"Don't take me otherwise, with your permission... I have decided that after lunch I will go to the Raj Bhavan and submit my resignation as the Chief Minister to the Governor," said 78-year-old Yediyurappa.

"Not out of grief, but with happiness," he said, as he thanked Prime Minister Narendra