On
August 21, Collector of Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Kannan
Gopinathan, a 2012-batch AGMUT cadre officer, resigned from his post and quit
the civil services. Usually, resignations of junior civil servants don’t attract
much attention. In the past too, junior officers have quit without much ado.
But in Gopinathan’s case, his resignation created quite a flutter in the
bureaucracy and the media and even seemed to have caught the government on the
wrong foot. This was so because Gopinathan resigned in protest against the
blanket communication blockade that was imposed in Jammu and Kashmir following
the abrogation of the Article 370 and 35A that granted special status to the
state. (See main story for Gopinathan’s statement that he issued after
resigning from service).
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