In August 2010 with just about 50 days of service, the officer tendered his resignation and left his place of posting without waiting for the official acceptance of the same
There is a growing murmur that the internal affairs of the Army are being controlled by others, raising questions of a seeming decay of the military trait of standing up and being counted in all matters.
Did the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi bypass the chain of command and force the Indian Army s hand into launching the "ill conceived, poorly planned, terribly executed" Operation Blue Star by compelling an ambitious army commander .
The fact that the service chiefs are ‘talking at’ instead of ‘talking to’ the angry aspirants is certainly not going to ease the already tense situation Agnipath has triggered, military analysts say.
Despite concerns over ballooning service pensions dominating the narrative during General Rawat’s tenure as CDS, the DMA and military leadership have lapsed into radio silence over the matter.