Episode 685
Manohar Parrikar
Tue, 2019-Mar-19 01:55 UTC
Length - 1:52
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With 384,373 views on Monday, 18 March 2019 our article of the day is Manohar Parrikar.
Manohar Parrikar (13 December 1955 – 17 March 2019) was an Indian politician and leader of Bharatiya Janata Party who was the Chief Minister of Goa from 14 March 2017 till his death. Previously, he was the chief minister of Goa from 2000 to 2005 and from 2012 to 2014.
Parrikar proposed the name of Narendra Modi as the prime ministerial candidate before the 2013 BJP parliamentary elections convention in Goa. He served in the National Democratic Alliance government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi as Defence Minister of India from 2014 to 2017. He was a former member of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:55 UTC on Tuesday, 19 March 2019.
For the full current version of the article, see Manohar Parrikar on Wikipedia.
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