{"id":318757,"date":"2020-01-11T10:29:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T10:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318757"},"modified":"2020-01-11T10:29:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T10:29:01","slug":"creation-of-cds-a-historical-step-says-army-chief-general-naravane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/creation-of-cds-a-historical-step-says-army-chief-general-naravane\/","title":{"rendered":"Creation of CDS a &#8216;Historical Step&#8217;, says Army Chief General Naravane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"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-318758 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/MM-naravane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/MM-naravane.jpg 750w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/MM-naravane-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/MM-naravane-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/MM-naravane-696x513.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/MM-naravane-570x420.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane on Saturday termed the creation of newly created post of\u00a0Chief of Defence Staff\u00a0(CDS) a very big step towards integration among three services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Creation of appointment of Chief of the Defence Staff CDS &amp; Department of Military Affairs are historical steps. We will do everything to make the historical step successful. Our Integration will take everybody forward &amp; together,\u201d Naravane said at a media briefing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Referring to the border with China, the army chief said the Indian Army is prepared to deal with challenges along the northern border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On being asked about the Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), he said, Army will take\u00a0appropriate action on\u00a0Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir if it gets orders from\u00a0Parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;There is a parliamentary resolution that entire Jammu and Kashmir\u00a0is part of India. If Parliament wants it, then, that area (PoK) also should belong to us. When we get orders to that effect, we will take appropriate action,&#8221; the army chief said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">General Naravane further said, &#8220;Indian Army is a professional Army. We are for the people and by the people of India. Our actions are for our countrymen. We function within the ambit of Indian Constitution and core values enshrined in the Indian Constitution&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane on Saturday termed the creation of newly created post of\u00a0Chief of Defence Staff\u00a0(CDS) a very big step towards integration among three services. &#8220;Creation of appointment of Chief of the Defence Staff CDS &amp; Department of Military Affairs are historical steps. We will do everything to make the historical step [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":318758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12350],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318757"}],"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=318757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318759,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318757\/revisions\/318759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/318758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}