Rajasthan minister for public health and engineering department, Ram Singh Vishnoi, has quit following seizure of narcotic drugs manufacturing unit at a factory owned by his son.
Vishnoi faxed his resignation letter late on Saturday night to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot who was in Guwahati attending the Congress chief ministers' conclave, sources close to Gehlot in Jaipur said. They said the chief minister would take a decision on Vishnoi's resignation on his return from Guwahati.

Vishnoi, who rushed to Bilara, where central excise and customs officials raided his son's cement factory on Thursday, had on Saturday said I am offering my resignation on moral grounds as I do not want to embarrass the state government over the issue.
However, he said the factory had been closed for the past two years and his son had rented it out, and alleged that the tenants were running the drug manufacturing unit. Meanwhile, a report from Jodhpur said a case under the narcotic drugs and psychotrophic substances act has been registered against the minister's son following seizure of four machines for making tablets and 160 kilogrammes of narcotic substance - mathaculane - in powdered form during the raid on the factory.
Official sources said the documents recovered during the raid suggested that the illegal drug manufacturing business was going on for the last three years and only two days back a consignment had been sent to Mumbai.
Bureau Report