NEW DELHI, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- India's solicitor general Ranjit Kumar Friday resigned from his post citing personal reasons, officials said.
Solicitor general is the second-most senior legal post in India.
"The government is good to me, but I tendered my resignation due to personal reasons," Kumar told a local television news channel after his resignation.
Kumar was appointed the solicitor general of India in 2014, soon after the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) government came to power.
In June, Mukul Rohatgi resigned from the post of attorney general, the government's chief legal advisor, declining an extension of his three-year term. He also cited personal reasons.
Following his resignation, K. K. Venugopal took over as the attorney general of India.
