New Delhi, May 17: Ending a decade at the helm, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday submitted his resignation to President Pranab Mukherjee, a day once the BJP routed the Congress within the Lok Sabha election.

Manmohan Singh was the prime minister at the top of a Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government since 2004.

He visited Rashtrapati Bhavan to submit his resignation within the oncenoon after meeting his cabinet for the last time.

At the cabinet meeting, all the ministers passed motions of thanks for the prime minister for helming the nation for a decade.

The prime minister, in turn, also passed a motion of thanks for his cabinet colleagues.

In the morning, Manmohan Singh gave a televised farewell address to the nation wherever he acknowledged his debt to the country that empowered him, “an deprived kid of partition”, to occupy the high workplace of prime minister and aforesaid he had tried to do his best in serving the country.

He aforesaid the simply finished national election, within which the Congress suffered its worst defeat, “deepened the foundations of our democratic polity” and its judgement ought to be revered by all.

He said: “India is a way stronger country in each respect than it was a decade ago.”