PM to give farewell address Saturday

New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will give a farewell address to the nation at 10 a.m. Saturday on state-run Doordarshan.

The prime minister steps down Saturday after a decade at the helm of two successive UPA governments.

He will also hold a cabinet meeting where he will thank his cabinet colleagues before going to Rashtrapati Bhavan to hand in his resignation at noon.

The BJP is set to form the new government at the centre after its landslide victory.