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.