Manohar Parrikar
Indian politician (1955–2019)
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- Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar (13 December 1955 – 17 March 2019) was an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party who served as the eighth Chief Minister of Goa, going on to serve a total of four times between 2000 and 2019.
- In 2020, he was posthumously awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award, by the Government of India.
- He then served in the National Democratic Alliance government under Prime Minister Modi as Defence Minister of India from 2014 to 2017.
- Early life and education Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar was born on 13 December 1955, to the Gaud Saraswat Brahmin (GSB) family of Gopal Krishna Parrikar and Radhabai Parrikar in Mapuçá, Portuguese Goa.
- Parrikar completed his Secondary School Certificate at G.
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WikipediaManohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar (13 December 1955 – 17 March 2019) was an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party who served as the eighth Chief Minister of Goa, going on to serve a total of four times between 2000 and 2019. He also served as the Union Minister of Defence from 2014 to 2017. In 2020, he was posthumously awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award, by the Government of India.
Parrikar proposed Narendra Modi as the prime ministerial candidate at the 2013 BJP parliamentary elections convention in Goa. He then served in the National Democratic Alliance government under Prime Minister Modi as Defence Minister of India from 2014 to 2017. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh from 2014 to 2017.
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.
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