NEW DELHI: Lt Gen (Retd) S.K Sinha will be India’s new ambassador to Nepal replacing AR Deo, it was officially announced here.
This will be the first diplomatic assignment for 64 year old Gen Sinha. He is the first political appointee of the National Front government.
He had taken premature retirement form the Indian army in 1983 after he was superseded by late Gen A.S. Vaidya for the chief of army staff’s post.
Gen Sinha will present his credentials to King Birendra of Nepal at Pokhra holiday resort on February 22.
The king is currently on a winter tour of western Nepal.
Gen (Retd) Sinha, who speaks Nepali fluently, takes up his assignment in Kathmandu at a time when the new government is trying to end the 11 month old trade and transit impasse.
Significantly he will land in the Himalayan kingdom on February 20 two days after the launching of the movement for restoration of democracy by the banned Nepali congress.
Janata Dal leader Chandrashekhar’s presence at the Nepali congress convention at Kathmandu last month had irked the Nepalese government.
Gen Sinha, who hails from Bihar is no stranger to Nepal. He had served with the fifth Gorkha rifles after independence and later became the colonel of the regiment.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 23, 1990
