When Pranab Mukherjee was sworn in as the President of India, the world witnessed a Parsi Chief Justice Kapadia swear in a Brahmin President Mukherjee, with a Muslim Vice President Hamid Ansari, Sikh Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, an Italian born Catholic Chairman of the ruling party Sonia Gandhi, and a Dalit Speaker of the Parliament Meira Kumar attending the ceremony. The Chief of the Indian Army is General Bikram Singh, a Sikh and Chief of Air Force is Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne, an Urdu-speaking Anglo Indian Christian from Allahbad. His son Omar is also a fighter pilot of the IAF