NEW DELHI: Eminent economist and columnist Surjit Bhalla on Tuesday said that he had resigned as part-time member of Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister(EAC-PM) on December 1."I resigned as part-time member of PMEAC on December 1," Bhalla said on social networking site Twitter. A Prime Minister's office (PMO) spokesperson said that Bhalla's resignation has been accepted. " In his request he had stated that he would be joining some other organisation," the spokesperson said. The EAC-PM is headed by Niti Aayog member Bibek Debroy.  Economists Rathin Roy, Ashima Goyal and Shamika Ravi are other part-time members. Bhalla's resignation comes a day after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Urjit Patel, quit abruptly after a months-long tussle over policy with the government.