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In those days, though, Parrikar had set his mind on establishing his business — he had set up a hydraulics factory with a Muslim partner — and was reluctant to take the political plunge.

Three decades later, his political legacy speaks for itself: Chief Minister of Goa on four occasions and the first Goan to serve as Defence Minister of India. But if the Parrikar before was fully engaged with the daily concerns of the state, he was later a man weighed down — mainly by the mining ban, pushed by a strong migrant lobby that started investing in casinos and projects across pristine forest and agriculture land.

In the last year-and-a-half, he was reluctant to delegate administrative affairs to ministerial colleagues and ran the state with a select group of administrators. In Delhi, where he was Defence Minister from to , he famously announced that he would break the nexus between middlemen and arms agents. He was also at the helm when the Army conducted the cross-border surgical strike of And when the controversial Rafale fighter jet deal was being negotiated by the NDA government.

Such is the irony, though, that his government had the strength of 13 BJP MLAs in the Cabinet in when he first became chief minister. And until his death Sunday — he was diagnosed last year with a pancreatic ailment — he was the 13th man from the BJP in the coalition alliance. In , when he first became the chief minister of a coalition government, heralding the BJP inside the assembly complex for the first time, people recall the dramatic convoy, with Parrikar sitting next to the driver as the car drove to the Adil Shah Palace, then the state secretariat, to stake claim.

Read in Malayalam. Parrikar not only made a mark as the CM of Goa but also experienced an eventful term as the defence minister. When Manohar Parrikar addressed the 55th convocation of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in , he told the graduates to take up jobs in social and development sectors.

An alumnus of the famed institute, Parrikar also asked students to join politics and the Army, said a former IIT-B student who was present at the convocation ceremony.

He was the institute's distinguished alumnus and keenly involved with many initiatives at IIT Bombay. He was also deeply involved with the launch of IIT Goa. The Institute had felicitated its distinguished alumnus Manohar Parrikar, former Minister of Defence who graduated in Metallurgical Engineering from the Institute in , "in recognition of his contribution to the development of the country," on the Alumni Day in World News.

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