Shillong: Meghalaya power minister Comingone Ymbon resigned from the cabinet on Monday, Ymbon refused to take calls when contactedseveral times and his resignation was circulated on social media, including Whatsapp.

chief minister, who is camping in his Raling constituency that he has tendered from the cabinet to the chief minister.is coming, that that and was a blow to the Congress-led government.district was away from the state capitalthat be in the , whether also ninth Sources said that Ymbon is planning to join the Opposition National People's Party (NPP) and contest from Raliang constituency as its candidate in the upcoming Assembly poll, scheduled to be held early next year.

Mukul had earlier termed these Congress legislators who planned to leave the party as "turncoats" and vowed to defeat them in the upcoming Assembly polls.