(1955-12-13)13 December 1955 Mapuçá, Goa, Portuguese India, Portuguese Empire (now in India)
Died
17 March 2019(2019-03-17) (aged 63) Panaji, Goa, India
Cause of death
Pancreatic cancer
Political party
Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse
Medha Parrikar (died 2001 due to blood cancer leukemia)
Children
2
Alma mater
IIT Bombay BTech
Awards
Padma Bhushan (2020)
Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar (13 December 1955 – 17 March 2019) was an Indian politician and leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party who served as Chief Minister of Goa from 14 March 2017 until his death.[1][2] Previously, he was Chief Minister of Goa from 2000 to 2005 and from 2012 to 2014 and from 2017 to 2019. He also served as the Minister of Defence from October 2014 to March 2017. In January 2020, he was posthumously awarded Padma Bhushan.
Parrikar proposed the name of Narendra Modi as the prime ministerial candidate before 2013 BJP parliamentary elections convention in Goa. He served in the National Democratic Alliance government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi as Defence Minister of India from 2014 to 2017. He was a former member of Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh.[3][4][5]
He was the first IIT alumnus to serve as MLA of an Indian state, the first IITian to become the Chief Minister of a state in India, the first Goan to become a cabinet-rank minister at the Centre, and also the first Chief Minister of a state to continue in office for over a year despite being diagnosed with terminal-stage cancer.[6]
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^"Manohar Parrikar appointed as new Goa Chief Minister". The Economic Times. 14 March 2017. Archived from the original on 13 March 2017. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
^"Thank You For Goa, Digvijaya Singh, Says Manohar Parrikar in Rajya Sabha". Archived from the original on 31 March 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
^"Alphabetical List of Sitting Members of Rajya Sabha". 164.100.47.5. Archived from the original on 12 August 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
^"Parrikar makes appearance in Rajya Sabha; Cong protests". The Tribune. 31 March 2017. Archived from the original on 31 March 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
^Sayta, Jay (17 July 2020). "Manohar Parrikar Was Both An Opportunistic Politician and a Workaholic Leader, Says New Biography". Outlook India. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
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