Gen Bikram Singh is Indian Army chief
May 31st, 2012 - 1:40 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, May 31 (IANS) Gen Bikram Singh, an infantry officer, Thursday took over as the 27th Indian Army chief from Gen V.K. Singh, who retired from service after a controversial 26 month tenure.
Bikram Singh, only the second Sikh to be elevated to the coveted top job, had to surmount many a hurdle, including a legal battle to deny him the opportunity to helm the world’s second largest army. He was till now the Kolkata-based Eastern Army Commander and will serve a 27 month tenure as army chief.
Commissioned in 1972 in the Sikh Light Infantry, Bikram Singh, 59, marks a generation shift in the army, being the first chief who has not seen action in a conventional war. The last conventional war India fought was in 1971 against Pakistan to liberate Bangladesh.
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