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Acting Chief of Army Staff Gurung
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
On August 9, 2009, the Cabinet meeting has decided to approve the one-month customary leave filed by the outgoing Chief of Army Staff Rukmangad Katuwal before getting retirement, and also has decided to appoint the Second-in-command Chhatraman Singh Gurung to the acting Chief of Army Staff. This is the first time in the history of the Nepal Army that anybody other than Ranas and Thakuris dearer to the palace people has been the Chief of Army Staff. The then-rulers called Ranas had even set the tradition of making a son born to the so-called ‘A’ class Ranas a general immediately after the delivery of a child.
The outgoing Chef of Army Staff Rukmangad Katuwal has turned over all his responsibilities to the incoming Chief of Army Staff Chhatraman Singh Gurung at the Army headquarters in Kathmandu; at the same time Katuwal has started moving out his household goods from the official quarter of the Chief of Army staff to his newly purchased house at Satdobato, Patan. Gurung will move in to the official quarter of the Chief of Army Staff after a month when he becomes a full-fledged Chief of Army Staff.
The legacy of the indiscipline outgoing Chief of Army Staff Rukmangad Katuwal has been the violation of the Interim Constitution of Nepal of 2007 by the ceremonial President and then making of the man defeated in two constituencies a Prime Minister.
