Right after PM Modi's government decided to elevate Lt. General Bipin Rawat as the new Army Chief, opposition parties cried foul. All parties like Congress,AAP, TMC, Communists attacked PM Modi of appointing their yes man as Army Chief. In their enthusiasm they forgot the fact that this was not the first time seniority was superseded and even earlier the then PM Indira gandhi superseded Lt Gen SK.Sinha to appoint Gen AS.Vaidya as the army chief in 1983.