{"id":318428,"date":"2020-01-01T06:58:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T06:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318428"},"modified":"2020-01-01T06:58:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T06:58:01","slug":"general-bipin-rawat-takes-charge-as-chief-of-defence-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/general-bipin-rawat-takes-charge-as-chief-of-defence-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"General Bipin Rawat takes charge as Chief of Defence Staff\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-318429 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/bipin-rawat-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/bipin-rawat-1.jpg 558w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/bipin-rawat-1-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/bipin-rawat-1-413x420.jpg 413w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/>General Bipin Rawat on Wednesday took charge as country\u2019s first\u00a0Chief of Defence Staff\u00a0(CDS).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) is all about synergy where effort is to achieve more than the sum of the whole. Sum of synergistic application of three Services is not for 1+1+1=3 but sum to be 5 or 7,\u201d said General Rawat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While addressing the media, General Rawat said the armed forces stay away from politics and work as per the directives of the government of the day. His remarks came amid allegations that armed forces were being politicised.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe keep ourselves away from politics. We act according to the directives of the government of the day,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">General Rawat also paid homage to the martyrs at National War Memorial.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Bipin Rawat on Wednesday took charge as country\u2019s first\u00a0Chief of Defence Staff\u00a0(CDS). &#8220;Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) is all about synergy where effort is to achieve more than the sum of the whole. Sum of synergistic application of three Services is not for 1+1+1=3 but sum to be 5 or 7,\u201d said General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":318429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12284,4673],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318430,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318428\/revisions\/318430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/318429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}