Lt Gen Anindya Sengupta to be Indian Army’s next ‘Fire and Fury’ Corps Commander

Source : India Today

Lt Gen Anindya Sengupta will take over as the next commander of the Fire and Fury Corps (Photo: ANI)

Amid the ongoing military standoff with China, Lieutenant General Anindya Sengupta will be the new commander of the Leh-based ‘Fire and Fury’ Corps by the end of this month.

He will succeed Lt Gen PGK Menon, who is completing his tenure of more than a year and has represented India in the talks with China to resolve the ongoing standoff in Eastern Ladakh on multiple occasions. “Lt Gen Sengupta is going to take over as the next commander of the Fire and Fury Corps and would be heading the talks from the Indian side with the Chinese in the next round of talks,” top government sources told India Today.

Due to the sensitive nature of the corps, which guards both the Chinese and Pakistani borders, the new corps commander will spend about 15 days with his predecessor to understand every aspect of the area and the issues that arise from it.

The Corps is also in charge of the Siachen area, which has been the world’s highest and coldest battlefield for more than three decades.

India and China have been in a military standoff position for almost two years now.

China has deployed over 60,000 troops in areas bordering India and is rapidly constructing infrastructure. India had also made similar deployments and had deployed heavy weaponry to counter their aggression.

Lt Gen Sengupta is currently posted in the Army Headquarters. Prior to joining Army headquarters, he served in the Punjab Regiment and commanded a counter-terrorist force in the Kashmir valley.