Manohar Parrikar
Manohar Parrikar | |
|---|---|
Official portrait, 2014 | |
| 8th Chief Minister of Goa | |
| In office 14 March 2017 – 17 March 2019 | |
| Governor | Mridula Sinha |
| Preceded by | Laxmikant Parsekar |
| Succeeded by | Dr. Pramod Sawant |
| In office 9 March 2012 – 8 November 2014 | |
| Governor | Bharat Vir Wanchoo Margaret Alva Mridula Sinha |
| Deputy | Francis D'Souza |
| Preceded by | Digambar Kamat |
| Succeeded by | Laxmikant Parsekar |
| In office 24 October 2000 – 2 February 2005 | |
| Governor | Mohammed Fazal Kidar Nath Sahani S. C. Jamir |
| Deputy | Ravi Naik |
| Preceded by | Francisco Sardinha |
| Succeeded by | Pratapsingh Rane |
| 27th Union Minister of Defence | |
| In office 9 November 2014 – 13 March 2017 | |
| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Preceded by | Arun Jaitley |
| Succeeded by | Arun Jaitley |
| Member of Goa Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 28 August 2017 – 17 March 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Sidharth Kuncalienker |
| Succeeded by | Atanasio Monserrate |
| Constituency | Panaji |
| In office 1994–2014 | |
| Preceded by | Joan Baptista Florino Gonsalves |
| Succeeded by | Sidharth Kuncalienker |
| Constituency | Panaji |
| Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha | |
| In office 26 November 2014 – 2 September 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Kusum Rai |
| Succeeded by | Hardeep Singh Puri |
| Constituency | Uttar Pradesh |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar 13 December 1955 Mapuçá, Goa, Portuguese India |
| Died | 17 March 2019 (aged 63) Panaji, Goa, India |
| Cause of death | Pancreatic cancer |
| Nationality |
|
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party (since 1980s) |
| Spouse |
Medha Parrikar (died 2001) |
| Education | Loyola High School |
| Alma mater | IIT Bombay (1978) |
| Occupation |
|
| Awards | Padma Bhushan (2020) |
Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar (13 December 1955 – 17 March 2019) was an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party who was the Chief Minister of Goa for three terms. He also served as the Union Minister of Defence from October 2014 to March 2017. In January 2020, he was posthumously awarded the Padma Bhushan.
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.