Govt superseded 3 senior officers to appoint new army chief
First time in 33 years, the government superseded three senior officers to name Lieutenant General Bipin Rawat as the next army chief. Rawat reportedly superseded most senior army commander Lt Gen Praveen Bakshi, who was next in line to be the army chief, besides two other officers. Notably, last such case of supersession was in 1983 under PM Indira Gandhi.