By Ali Ahmed
Two images involving the army did the rounds of social media recently.
The first was the army chief Upendra Dwivedi with the defence minister Rajnath Singh propitiating a deity at a temple near Mhow, where the minister was on an official trip. The army chief was in the traditional devotee attire.
The second was a clip from the Southern Command X handle showing the army commander in a jeep ferrying the new Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis. The jeep is driven by a brigadier, while, a major general in the co-driver’s seat is seen shooing away those coming in the way.
Trips to Amarnath cave and to the Vaishnodevi shrine being de rigueur, the first is unremarkable.
The second is equally unsurprising. The army commander in question has eminent right-wing pedigree.
Gossip has it that at the last promotional hurdle to three-star rank, a professional competitor commanding a consensus amongst peers as by far the most competent officer of his cohort, was tripped up by an intelligence agency interfering with the process.
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