Shillong, March 18 -- As Goa politics heats up for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party is making all efforts to retain the rich legacy and popular government headed by Manohar Parrikar, who died on March 17, 2019 after a prolonged battle with pancreatic cancer. The last rites of Parrikar were held on Monday evening with full state honours.

Parrikar, 63, is survived by two sons, two daughter in-laws and a grandson.

Goa Assembly Speaker Pramod Pandurang Sawant was sworn-in as the new Chief Minister of the BJP-led coalition government on March 18, 2019 evening by Governor Mridula Sinha, Sawant, who will be the 11th Chief Minister of the coastal state.

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