Lt General Baggavalli Somashekar Raju

  • The Army’s Director General of Military Operations, Lt. Gen. B.S. Raju, has been appointed the Vice Chief of the Army Staff.
  • This is a rare instance where a three star officer took over as Vice Chief before serving tenure as an Army Commander.
  • As a practice in the Army, Vice Chiefs have for a long time been those who had already served as Army Commander.

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S. Iqbal Singh Lalpura

He has been reappointed as the Chairperson of National Commission for Minorities.

Vijay Sampla

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