Lt Gen Bipin Rawat appointed army chief, Air Marshal BS Dhanoa is new air force chief
A file photo of Lt Gen Bipin Rawat, who will be India’s new army chief. (This photo was tweeted by PTI)
Lt Gen Bipin Rawat was named India’s next army chief on Saturday, as the government abandoned a three-decades-old tradition of elevating senior-most officers as military chiefs.
It, however, stuck to the practice in elevating vice chief air marshal BS Dhanoa – a Kargil war veteran – as the next head of the Indian Air Force.
The two new chiefs – both 1978 batch officers – will take charge on December 31.