Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar died in Panaji on Sunday, succumbing to a pancreatic ailment that had slowed down the technocrat-politician. He was 63.
"The chief minister died around 6.40 pm Sunday," a senior state government official told news agency PTI.Parrikar admitted in December that he was battling a "life-threatening disease", but said he would continue to work till his last breath.
He presented the Goa budget in the assembly on January 30, wearing a tube in his nose. "Present circumstances have prevented me from delivering a detailed Budget speech, but there is a josh that is too high, very high and I am in hosh. Fully in hosh," he had said after presenting the budget.
Parrikar, who studied metallurgy at IIT Bombay, served as the defence minister for three years in the Narendra Modi government before he moved to take charge as Goa's chief minister for the fourth time in 2017.
