The naapaak supreme had itself made a very serious mistake of letting him contend the election while still in uniform.
They the supreme should have asked him then only to shed the uniform first.
In any case, our own experience in Bharatvarsh says that a general in uniform occupying the PMO may perhaps be a better proposition than a safed topi, a saffron, or a cocktail/bhrusht sarkar like an UPA that could be very easily blackmailed by elements like karat-farat and yechuri-fechuri.
A general would consign such elements behind the bars.