Comfort zone

“I am comfortable in my own skin. The rest is fluff. It comes and goes,” said M S Gill, who was dropped from the Union Cabinet. Gill, a former bureaucrat who rose to become the chief election commissioner, joined the Congress party after demitting the Constitutional office to become a Rajya Sabha member in 2004. He became the minister of sports and youth affairs in UPA-I and was elevated as the Cabinet minister in 2009. In the last reshuffle in January this year, he was shifted to statistics and programme implementation. “Fluff? India’s worst kept secret is now out,” said a Cabinet minister in response to Gill’s remark.