As BJP loses the Parrikar advantage, Goa plunges into political chaos

All indications are that the Congress will make another bid to form the government

One of India’s most unassuming but most charismatic chief ministers, Manohar Parrikar, died last evening plunging the politics of Goa into chaos.

A trained metallurgical engineer from IIT Bombay, Parrikar became defence minister when Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, but his induction in the Centre was, in some ways, a second thought. He took over in November 2014 from Arun Jaitley and while he came to Delhi and presided over a complex ministry with aplomb, his heart was always in Goa.

Parrikar hated being compared to Modi but the career paths of the leaders were similar. 

He was like Modi, an