India, July 27 -- Kannan Gopinathan, the IAS officer who resigned in 2019 citing an inability to express his opinion while in government service, has made a fresh request to Prime Minister Narendra Modi - and with it, taken a series of digs too.

"Dear PM Narendra Modi, now that you have started accepting resignations, please accept mine. It's been 7 years!!" the 41-year-old from Kerala, who joined the Congress last year, wrote on X, apparently citing the recent resignation of senior BJP leader Dharmendra Pradhan as education minister after weeks of Gen-Z protests sparked by the Cockroach Janta Party.

Gopinathan belongs to the 2012 batch of IAS in the Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre.

On his X post, when...