Kerala Industry Minister E.P. Jayarajan, charged with appointing his relatives to government jobs, resigned on Friday.
The resignation of Jayarajan, of the Communist Party of India-Marxist, had been demanded by both the opposition Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party ever since the reports about the appointments surfaced.
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