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16/10/23 06:45 AM IST

Former chief election commissioner MS Gill passes away

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  • Former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India and Congress leader Manohar Singh Gill died at a private hospital at the age of 86 after combating a brief illness.
About MS Gill
  • A former bureaucrat, Gill served under Parkash Singh Badal as a young officer when the Shiromani Akali Dal patriarch was the Punjab chief minister.
  • He served as the chief election commissioner (CEC) between December 1996 and June 2001.
  • Having served as the Agriculture Secretary of Punjab in the 1980s, he also authored a book titled ‘An Indian Success Story: Agriculture and Cooperatives’.
  • Gill and GVG Krishnamurty were made members of the Election Commission when TN Seshan was heading the poll panel.
  • It was then that the poll panel became a multi-member body.
  • He is perhaps the first former CEC to have joined politics.
  • Gill entered the Rajya Sabha as a Congress member and was made the Union sports minister in 2008.
  • Gill is survived by his wife and three daughters.
Source- Indian Express

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