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Former IAS serviceman Kannan Gopinathan connected Monday (October 13, 2025) joined Congress successful the beingness of Congress General Secretary K.C. Venugopal and enactment person Pawan Khera successful New Delhi.
Mr. Gopinathan, who had been serving arsenic the caput of the power, municipality improvement and municipality and state readying departments of the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, resigned successful 2019, protesting against the abrogation of Article 370 successful Jammu and Kashmir.
“We warmly invited Shri Kannan Gopinathan, erstwhile IAS serviceman and fearless dependable for democracy, to the Congress family, Mr. Venugopal posted connected X, sharing the photograph of the property conscionable successful which Mr. Gopinathan was invited to the party.
We warmly invited Shri Kannan Gopinathan, erstwhile IAS serviceman and fearless dependable for democracy, to the Congress family.
He has served arsenic a principled administrator, an progressive citizen, and a committed democrat, and his joing volition surely springiness a boost to our question that stands… pic.twitter.com/caGAyab3Wj
Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani and Congress person Kanhaiya Kumar were besides contiguous successful the property meet.
“He (Mr. Gopinathan) has served arsenic a principled administrator, an progressive citizen, and a committed democrat, and his joining volition surely springiness a boost to our question that stands to support the Constitution, freedom, and inclusive societal cloth of India,” Mr. Venugopal added successful his post.
“I resigned (as an officer) successful 2019. One happening was wide astatine that time: the absorption successful which the Government wants to instrumentality the state is not right. It was wide that I had to combat against the wrong...I travelled crossed 80-90 districts and spoke with the people; I met respective leaders. Then it became wide that lone the Congress enactment tin instrumentality the state successful the absorption successful which it should go,” Mr. Gopinathan said aft joining the party.
“Abrogating Article 370 mightiness beryllium a determination of the Government. But if you determine to unopen down an full state, jailhouse each journalists, MPs and erstwhile CMs, unopen down transportation, connection and internet, past is it right? This is simply a question not conscionable for maine but for each of us. Can this beryllium close successful a antiauthoritarian nation? Should voices not person been raised against this? I raised that question and I basal by it adjacent today,” helium added.
Hailing from Kottayam successful Kerala, Mr. Gopinathan completed his schooling from Puthuppally, and aboriginal completed electrical engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology. He joined joined IAS successful 2012.
With inuts from ANI
