Full Name: Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar
Born: 13, December, 1955
Place of Birth: Mapusa, Goa, India
Father: Gopalkrishna Parrikar
Mother: Radhabai Parrikar
Wife: Lt Medha Parrikar
Children: Abhijit Parrikar and Utpal Parrikar
Education: B. Tech. (MET) Educated at I.I.T. Bombay
Profession: Politician
Politcal Party: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Died: 17 March, 2019
Cause of Death: Pancreatic Cancer
Former Union Defence Minister and Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar passed away in Panaji on March 17, 2019.Political leaders across the country have condoled Mr. Parrikar’s death.
Manohar Parrikar was an Indian politician and leader of Bharatiya Janata Party who was the Chief Minister of Goa from 14 March 2017 till his death .Previously he was Chief Minister of Goa from 2000 to 2005 and from 2012 to 2014.
Manohar Parrikar was born in Mapusa, Goa. He studied at Loyola High School, Margao.[9] He completed his secondary education in Marathi and went on to graduate in metallurgical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay) in 1978. He was the first IIT alumnus to serve as MLA of an Indian state. He was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award by the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 2001.
Parrikar belongs to the Goud Saraswat Brahmin (GSB) community which is a fish-eating Brahmins caste that reside in the western coast of India. His wife Medha died in 2001. They have two sons.
From working as an RSS karsevak in Ayodhya during the demolition of the Babri Masjid in December ‘92 to establishing his party’s writ in Goa with the help of local Catholics, Manohar Parrikar could boldly balance his ideology with Realpolitik like no one else.
Parrikar joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at a young age and became a mukhya shikshak (chief instructor) in the final years of his schooling. After graduating from IIT, he resumed RSS work in Mapusa while maintaining a private business, and became a sanghchalak (local director) at the age of 26. He was active in the RSS’s North Goa unit, becoming a key organiser of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement. He was seconded by RSS to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with the objective of fighting the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party.
In the 2014 General Elections, BJP won both the Lok Sabha seats in Goa. Parrikar was reluctant to leave Goa and move to Delhi in November 2014, by his own admission but was persuaded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to join the central government.
On March 14, 2017, Parrikar was sworn in as Chief Minister of Goa. Goa Forward Party led by Vijai Sardesai, one of the parties who allied with BJP in Goa after election results were announced, had said that it would extend support to the BJP only if Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was brought back to the state as Chief Minister
As of March–June 2018, Parrikar was undergoing treatment for a pancreatic ailment at a hospital in the US. He returned to India and in September was admitted in the AIIMS, Delhi for treatment. On 27 October 2018 the Goa government announced that CM Manohar Parrikar has pancreatic cancer.
He died on 17 March 2019 at the age of 63 from pancreatic cancer at his residence in Panaji. His death was announced by the president of India, Ram Nath Kovind.
