President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday accepted the resignation of Dr. L. Murugan from the Union Council of Ministers, formally ending his stint as Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs.
The development was announced through a press communique issued by the President’s Secretariat, which stated that the resignation had been accepted “with immediate effect, under clause (2) of Article 75 of the Constitution of India,” on the advice of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The formal acceptance closes a three-day interval during which Murugan’s departure from the government had been announced but not yet ratified.
Murugan had made his decision public on October 13, when he wrote to the Prime Minister expressing his desire to relinquish both his ministerial berth and his Rajya Sabha membership. In that communication, he said he wished to return to the grassroots and dedicate himself full-time to strengthening the Bharatiya Janata Party in Tamil Nadu ahead of the 2029 Lok Sabha elections.
Speaking to reporters after his resignation, Murugan was categorical about the reason for the move. “I have written a letter to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, expressing my desire to go to Tamil Nadu. I want to strengthen my party in the state and prepare the ground for the 2029 elections,” he said, citing the warmth and enthusiasm he had witnessed during the Prime Minister’s recent visit to the state.
The letter itself struck a note of organisational resolve. Murugan wrote that he wished to “return to the grassroots, stand with our karyakartas and dedicate myself full-time to strengthening the BJP in Tamil Nadu ahead of the 2029 Lok Sabha elections,” invoking what he described as his guiding philosophy of nearly three decades in the ABVP and the BJP: “Nation First. Party Next. Self Last.”
The decision carries clear political signalling. Murugan’s return to Tamil Nadu suggests the BJP’s leadership is preparing to invest in the state organisation well in advance of the next general election, with an experienced former Union minister positioned to anchor the ground effort.
A former vice-president of the BJP’s Tamil Nadu unit, Murugan has been among the party’s most visible faces in the state, and his deployment back to Chennai is being read in political circles as an early start to the party’s 2029 project in the south.
With the resignation now formally accepted, the Council of Ministers moves ahead without the MoS for Information and Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs, and the spotlight shifts to how the BJP reshuffles responsibilities — and to Murugan’s next steps on the ground in Tamil Nadu.
