After their victory in 1979, he became army chief of staff.
Later the army chief of staff said he would need eight more weeks to complete the operation.
The army chief of staff has said that the operation would take eight weeks.
If the general decides to leave as army chief, he too will become a senator for life.
He then took up his final post as fourth assistant to the Army chief of staff.
He was the first Indian army chief to write an autobiography in 1979.
At his retirement as army chief, he was appointed General.
All three were former army chiefs of staff with widespread public support.
The army chief told protesters they would not be fired upon.
Following independence in 1980, he carried on doing pretty much the same job - as army chief, becoming a general.
