Panaji, Mar 17: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar passed away on Sunday evening after a prolonged illness. Parrikar was 63.
Manohar Parrikar was undergoing treatment over the past one year for a serious pancreatic ailment.
Manohar Parrikar's health worsened over the past two days. The former defence minister's health has been fluctuating for the past one year.
Manohar Parrikar has been in and out of the hospital over the past few months. Parrikar also visited the US for treatment.
Till the last of his days, Manohar Parrikar worked to the best of his abilities and even presented the state budget while still battling his illness and with tubes attached to his mouth.
Manohar Parrikar even attended political events and addressed party workers and remained in the public domain as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gears up for the Lok Sabha elections next month.
Manohar Parrikar joined the RSS in his youth after graduating from IIT.
In his last days, Manohar Parrikar also found himself tied up in the Rafale controversy as Congress and some media houses brought up old documents from the time when he was the defence minister.
Before going back to Goa, Manohar Parrikar joined the Modi Cabinet as the defence minister.
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