UPA GOVERNMENT APPOINTS LT. GEN. DALBIR SINGH AS NEW ARMY CHIEF

New Delhi: UPA Government today cleared Lieutenant General Dalbir Singh Suhag’s appointment as the next Army chief after General Bikram Singh who retires on July 31.This last major appointment of the UPA-II regime, just before the Lok Sabha election results are declared on May 16, was cleared by the Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) chaired by PM Manmohan Singh on Tuesday afternoon.

Lieutenant General Suhag (59), who was commissioned into 4/5 Gorkha Rifles in June 1974, will have a 29-month as the chief of the world’s second-largest standing Army till December 31, 2016. He will be the second Gorkha Rifles officer after late Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, regarded as the prime architect of the 1971 liberation of Bangladesh, to become the Army chief.

Source:Agencies