New Delhi, Dec 6 (PTI) Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday said he has accepted the resignation of BJP MP Kirodi Lal Meena from the House with immediate effect.

"I have received a letter, dated December 6, personally submitted to me by Kirodi Lal Meena, representing the state of Rajasthan, resigning his seat in Rajya Sabha. I have accepted his resignation with immediate effect," Dhankhar said in the Upper House.

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Meena has won the recent assembly elections from Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan.

Earlier speaking in the House, the outgoing MP requested the government to declare cow as a national animal.

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Cow is an integral part of India's culture and the time is ripe to declare cow as the national animal, he stated.

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