Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS Rinku Singh Rahi (IAS:2022:UP), who created ripples in the bureaucratic circles after resigning from the elite service due to alleged denial of meaningful posting for a long time, has now clarified that he did not want to leave his government job.
In his letter to the President of India recently, in which he reportedly tendered a “technical resignation” on Wednesday, Rahi writes that some people resign because they do not like government jobs. But he claims he likes govt work and has tendered a technical resignation as he was unable to serve the people of the state.
“If you are not letting me work here, then send me back to a place where I can work,” he argues.
Rahi had been a Provincial Civil Service (PCS) officer in UP since 2008 before cracking the UPSC’s Civil Service Exam and getting selected in 2022.
He rues having been kept in an ‘attached position,’ referring to his attachment to the Board of Revenue since July 30, 2025, where he claims he had no real work to do.
Just six days before he was attached to the Board of Revenue, Rahi had been transferred to the Shahjahanpur district as Joint Commissioner. His action of making a lawyer do squats for urinating in the open. Rahi also performed five squats after lawyers surrounded him to address the issue of dirty toilets in the tehsil. A video of his action became viral, generating wide controversy.
In 2009, when he was posted in the Social Welfare department as a PCS officer, Rahi had reportedly exposed several matters of corruption, after which he was threatened by the then Principal Secretary of the department and was even later shot at by unidentified assailants. The bullets left his face partially paralysed but he remained undeterred and continued to do his work in his fearless style.
In his letter to the President, Rahi alleges that he was not given a fair hearing before being sent off to the Board of Revenue, where he even refused to accept salary for two months as he had no work to do.
He says that his situation would be highly demoralising for young bureaucrats, adding that his case may be the first since Independence, but his department has not responded to his ‘technical resignation.’
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