Former chief election commissioner of India and Padma Vibhushan awardee, Congress chief Manohar Singh Gill handed away on Sunday at Max Hospital in South Delhi’s Saket.

Gill, who served because the Chief Election Commissioner from 1996 to 2001, has beforehand held the posts of Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports and Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation below the Congress authorities.

A former Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer from the Punjab cadre, Gill was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2004 on a Congress ticket. Having served because the Agriculture Secretary of Punjab within the Eighties, he additionally authored a e-book titled ‘An Indian Success Story: Agriculture and Cooperatives’.