Manohar Parrikar
| Manohar Parrikar | |
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| मनोहर पर्रीकर | |
Manohar Parrikar
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| Union Minister of Defence (Government Of India) |
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Assumed office 9 November 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Preceded by | Arun Jaitley |
| Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) | |
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Assumed office 26 November 2014 |
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| Constituency | Uttar Pradesh |
| 10th Chief Minister of Goa | |
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In office 9 March 2012 – 8 November 2014 |
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| Governor |
K Sankaranarayanan Bharat Vir Wanchoo Margaret Alva Om Prakash Kohli Mridula Sinha |
| Preceded by | Digambar Kamat |
| Succeeded by | Laxmikant Parsekar |
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In office 24 October 2000 – 2 February 2005 |
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| Governor |
Mohammed Fazal Kidar Nath Sahani Mohammed Fazal S C Jamir |
| Preceded by | Francisco Sardinha |
| Succeeded by | Pratapsingh Rane |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Manohar Gopalakrishna Prabhu Parrikar 13 December 1955 Mapuçá, Goa, Portuguese India (now in India) |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Spouse(s) | Medha Parrikar |
| Children | 2 (Sons) |
| Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay |
| Religion | Hinduism |
Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar (born 13 December 1955) is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party who is the current Defence Minister of India. Before being inducted into the Council of Ministers of the Union Government on 9 November 2014, he served as the Chief Minister of Goa, first from 2000 to 2005 and later from March 2012 to November 2014. He is a member of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh.
Manohar Parrikar was born in Mapusa, Goa. He studied at Loyola High School, Margao. He completed his secondary education in Marathi and went on to graduate in metallurgical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay) in 1978. He is the first IIT graduate to serve as Chief Minister of an Indian state. He was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2001 by IIT Bombay.
Parrikar joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at a young age and became a mukhya shikshak (chief instructor) in the final years of his schooling. After graduating from IIT, he resumed RSS work in Mapusa while maintaining a private business, and became a sanghchalak (local director) at the age of 26. He was active in the RSS's North Goa unit, becoming a key organiser of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement. He was seconded by RSS to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with the objective of fighting the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party. Parrikar has often expressed considerable pride of his RSS background, saying that he learnt "discipline, progressiveness, gender equality, equality of all before the law, nationalism and social responsibility from the RSS". He is sometimes described as having been a pracharak of the RSS.
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