Manohar Parrikar

Manohar Parrikar
Official portrait, 2017
8th Chief Minister of Goa
In office
14 March 2017 – 17 March 2019
GovernorMridula Sinha
Preceded byLaxmikant Parsekar
Succeeded byDr. Pramod Sawant
In office
9 March 2012 – 8 November 2014
GovernorBharat Vir Wanchoo
Margaret Alva
Mridula Sinha
DeputyFrancis D'Souza
Preceded byDigambar Kamat
Succeeded byLaxmikant Parsekar
In office
24 October 2000 – 2 February 2005
GovernorMohammed Fazal
Kidar Nath Sahani
S. C. Jamir
DeputyRavi Naik
Preceded byFrancisco Sardinha
Succeeded byPratapsingh Rane
27th Union Minister of Defence
In office
9 November 2014 – 13 March 2017
Prime MinisterNarendra Modi
Preceded byArun Jaitley
Succeeded byArun Jaitley
Member of Goa Legislative Assembly
In office
28 August 2017 – 17 March 2019
Preceded bySidharth Kuncalienker
Succeeded byAtanasio Monserrate
ConstituencyPanaji
In office
1994–2014
Preceded byJoan Baptista Florino Gonsalves
Succeeded bySidharth Kuncalienker
ConstituencyPanaji
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office
26 November 2014 – 2 September 2017
Preceded byKusum Rai
Succeeded byHardeep Singh Puri
ConstituencyUttar Pradesh
Personal details
Born
Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar

(1955-12-13)13 December 1955
Mapuçá, Goa, Portuguese India, Portuguese Empire
Died17 March 2019(2019-03-17) (aged 63)
Panaji, Goa, India
Cause of deathPancreatic cancer
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
SpouseMedha Parrikar (died 2001)
Children2
EducationLoyola High School
Alma materIIT Bombay (1976)
AwardsPadma 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]

  1. ^ Desk, Internet. "Manohar Parrikar to take oath as Goa CM tomorrow". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 13 March 2017. Retrieved 13 March 2017. {{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "Thank You For Goa, Digvijaya Singh, Says Manohar Parrikar in Rajya Sabha". Archived from the original on 31 March 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  4. ^ "Alphabetical List of Sitting Members of Rajya Sabha". 164.100.47.5. Archived from the original on 12 August 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ 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.