Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar resigned as Goa Chief Minister

Nov 10, 2014, 11:02 IST

Goa Chief Minister Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar on 8 November 2014 resigned from his position.

Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu ParrikarGoa Chief Minister Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar on 8 November 2014 resigned from his position. With the resignation of Parrikar, entire state cabinet comprising of 12 ministers was dissolved.

Manohar Parrikar had resigned to take up the post of Defence minister in the Union Cabinet on 9 November 2014.



Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar
• Born on 13 December 1955, Parrikar did his graduation in metallurgical engineering from IIT Bombay in 1978.
• Manohar Parrikar is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India.
• He has been Chief Minister of Goa first from 2000 to 2005 and later from March 2012 to November 2014 and represented the Panaji constituency in the Legislative Assembly of Goa.

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