From Prime Minister Narendra Modi to military heads of nations across the globe, tributes continue to pour in for India's first Chief of Defence Staff, who died in a tragic chopper crash on December 8
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New Delhi: Lt Gen Chandi Prasad Mohanty on Monday took charge as the Vice Chief of the Army Staff, succeeding Lt Gen SK Saini.
In a career spanning four decades, the officer served in numerous positions in field and highly active counter-insurgency environments.
Lt Gen Mohanty was heading the Army s Southern Command when he was appointed as Vice Chief of the Army Staff. Gen Saini retired from service on Sunday.
An alumnus of the Indian Military College, Dehradun and National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, Lt Gen CP Mohanty was commissioned into the Rajput Regiment on 12 Jun 1982.
He has the unique distinction of commanding two brigades first on the Line of Actual Control and at the multinational UN Brigade in Democratic Republic of Congo.
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