A fishy succession plan

In his letter to the Supreme Court opposing the army chief, General V K Singh’s case for relevant official records to show his correct date of birth, Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati referred to a mysterious ‘succession plan’ that he said the authorities were determined to protect. The so-called ‘succession plan’ has validity only if the government of India first acknowledges that it has outsourced the selection of chief of army staff to a couple of former army chiefs. If such is the case, then it is a most alarming development and it is surprising it has drawn so little attention.

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