{"id":310650,"date":"2019-03-18T14:02:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T14:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310650"},"modified":"2019-03-18T14:02:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T14:02:55","slug":"goa-manohar-parrikar-cremated-with-state-honours-at-miramar-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/goa-manohar-parrikar-cremated-with-state-honours-at-miramar-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Goa: Manohar Parrikar cremated with state honours at Miramar beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310651 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/goa-cm-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/goa-cm-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/goa-cm-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/goa-cm.jpg 549w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Goa chief minister and former Defence minister Manohar Parrikar was cremated with state honours on Monday at Panaji\u2019s Miramar beach, with thousands gathered to bid the affable politician a fond farewell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The mortal remains of Parrikar were kept in a flower-decked hearse and the funeral procession began from the Kala Academy for the Miramar beach, where the last rites were performed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Parrikar\u2019s son Utpal lit the funeral pyre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP president Amit Shah, some Union ministers and chief ministers of BJP-ruled states attended the funeral at Miramar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As the vehicle carrying late Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar\u2019s body travelled 5 km from his private residence in Dona Paula to Panaji in the morning, people tried to catch a glimpse of the leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to Parrikar at the Kala Academy and met his family members and offered his condolences to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPaid tributes to my friend Shri Manohar Parrikar. He personified humility, simplicity and compassion. The good work he has done will be remembered for years to come,\u201d Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also met Parrikar&#8217;s family members and paid tributes to the former defence minister.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goa chief minister and former Defence minister Manohar Parrikar was cremated with state honours on Monday at Panaji\u2019s Miramar beach, with thousands gathered to bid the affable politician a fond farewell. The mortal remains of Parrikar were kept in a flower-decked hearse and the funeral procession began from the Kala Academy for the Miramar beach, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2922,36,2014,2026],"tags":[3044],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310652,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310650\/revisions\/310652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}