& #39;This Jpc Will Not Tread The Beaten Path & #39;

Lt General Shri Prakash Mani Tripathi (retired), AVSM , PVSM, likes to point out that he is the first Lt General in the past 50 years to be elected to the Lok Sabha. The 67-year-old BJP member from Deoria in Uttar Pradesh, who retired as deputy chief of army staff in 1993, says he was neither surprised nor overjoyed to become chairman of the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) investigating the stockmarket scam.

In his second term in Parliament, Tripathi, who began his army career in the Armoured Corps in 1955, will be under intense media focus for the next few months. There