Northern Command chief
Lieutenant-General Upendra Dwivedi will take over as the new
Army vice chief
on February 15, while he will be replaced at Udhampur by Lieutenant-General M V Suchindra Kumar. The new appointments come ahead of
Army chief Gen Manoj Pande's superannuation
on May 31.
Lieutenant-Gen Dwivedi, who was commissioned into the Jammu & Kashmir Rifles in December 1984, had taken over the reins of the crucial Northern Command in February 2022.
Lieutenant-General Kumar, who was commissioned into 1 Assam Regiment in June 1985, in turn, had become the vice chief in March 2023.
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