Gen. Dalbir Singh Suhag, whose appointment as Army
Chief had kicked up a row, today took over as the head of the 1.3
million strong force succeeding Gen Bikram Singh.
Gen. Suhag assumed
charge after his predecessor handed over to him the Chief of Army Staff
baton in his South Block office here.
The new Chief
takes over at a time when the force is facing challenges of modernsation
in its artillery, infantry and air defence arms and is also preparing
itself for facing a possible multi-front war.
59-year-old Gen. Suhag, a Gurkha officer who had participated in the
1987 Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) operation in Sri Lanka, was till
now the Vice Chief of Army Staff.
He will have a tenure of 30 months as
the 26th Army Chief. Gen.
Suhag was made the Vice Chief of Army Staff in
December last year.
Before that, he was the Eastern Army Commander from
June 16, 2012.
He was at the centre of a controversy triggered by
’discipline and vigilance’ ban imposed on him by the then Army Chief Gen
V K Singh in connection with an intelligence operation in Assam
earlier.
On his first day in office on Friday Aug 01,2014, Army Chief Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag on Friday
warned Pakistan that India’s response to any beheading-like incident in
future would be “more than adequate, intense and immediate”.
“I can tell you that our response to any such act will be more than adequate in future. It will be intense and immediate,”
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