General Dalbir Singh Suhag , New Indian Chief of Army Staff ( Image credits- Wikimedia commons/ Anup ONGC) General Dalbir Singh Suhag today took charge as India's new army chief, succeeding General Bikram Singh, who has retired. Lt. Gen. Suhag was appointed chief in May by the outgoing UPA government despite protests from former army chief, General VK Singh, and the BJP. 59-year-old Lt. General Suhag, a Gurkha officer who had participated in the 1987 Indian Peace Keeping Force operation in Sri Lanka, will have 30-month tenure. He comes from a family of soldiers. A village in Jhajjar, Haryana, is celebrating the rise of the boy they knew as fearless. "He had a sharp brain and worked hard. He has achieved all this because of his hard work. He was fearless," his mother said. Asked if she was happy, she said, "When my son has reached such great heights...of course I am." His father Rajpal Singh Suhag is a retired flying officer. "Generations of our fami