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Manohar Parrikar passes away
March 18 , 2019
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- Four-time Goa Chief Minister and former Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar passed away on March 17.
- Parrikar resigned as Chief Minister and served as Defence Minister from 2014-17 on the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
- Parrikar was the first Indian Institute of Technology alumnus (of IIT, Bombay) to serve as MLA of an Indian state as well as Chief Minister of Goa (in 2000).
- He became the Chief Minister for four terms but could not complete a single full term in office.
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