Four-time Goa Chief Minister and former Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, 63, died after a prolonged battle with pancreatic cancer for over a year.
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Manohar Parrikar (1955 – 2019) was an Indian politician and leader of Bharatiya Janata Party.
He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay). He was the first IIT alumnus to serve as MLA of an Indian state.
He was Chief Minister of Goa from 2000 to 2005, then from 2012 to 2014 and finally from 14 March 2017 till his death.
He served in the National Democratic Alliance government as Defence Minister of India from 2014 to 2017. His tenure witnessed the cross-border surgical strike of 2016 and the negotiations of the controversial Rafale fighter jet deal by the NDA government.
He is India's 18th Chief Minister to Die While in Office. Before Mr Parrikar, 17 Chief Ministers including Tamil Nadu's J Jayalalitha, Jammu and Kashmir's Sheikh Abdullah and Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, and Andhra Pradesh's YS Rajasekhara Reddy died in office.
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