Sardar Partap Singh Kairon, chief minister of Punjab, was not only a successful administrator, but also a master of wit and repartee. In 1964, he had to submit his resignation, in wake of his indictment by the Das Commission, on charges of financial irregularities. Right after the press conference, in which he announced his resignation, a man stood up and bowed to the wily politician. Kairon, tired from the grilling by pressmen fumed, “There now, who are you?” “I am your Das (servant)”, the man replied obsequiously. Kairon retorted, “One Das has  scr**** me up, and what does the second one want”.