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Manohar Parrikar, 4 time Goa CM passes away, given state funeral today

Manohar Parrikar, 4 time Goa CM passes away, given state funeral today

Goa Chief Minister and former Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, who had been battling cancer for more than a year, died at his home in Panaji at the age of 63 on Sunday. The 63-year-old widower, also former defence minister of India, is survived by two sons and a grandchild. His death leaves India’s smallest state with a coalition government under considerable strain.

Parrikar had quit as Union defence minister in March 2017 to return as chief minister of India’s smallest state to hold together the ruling coalition after its constituents refused to accept anyone else as its leader. That he stayed on in the job despite his deteriorating health, reflected his indispensability to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

His body will be kept at the BJP head office in state capital in the morning where people will pay their final respects to him from 11am to 4pm at Kala Academy.

The funeral procession will begin at 4pm and the last rites will performed at 5pm at SAG grounds in Campal, approximately 4km from Panaji. Read More...

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