Manohar Parrikar was the 18th chief minister and the second in Goa who died while still in office. Parrikar, 63, a former defence minister, died on March 17 at his residence after battling pancreatic cancer for over a year.

Before Parrikar, 17 chief ministers including Tamil Nadu’s J. Jayalalithaa, Jammu & Kashmir’s Sheikh Abdullah and Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, and Andhra Pradesh’s Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy died in harness.

1. Gopinath Bordoloi: The first chief minister of Assam. He worked closely with Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to secure the state’s sovereignty against China and Pakistan (as then East Pakistan bordered it) before his death in August 1950.

2. Ravishankar Shukla: A freedom fighter who laid special emphasis on the uplift of women. He became the first chief minister of Central Provinces from November 1956 until his death in December 1956.

3. Sri Krishna Singh: The first chief minister of Bihar, Sinha held the post from 1952 until his death in 1961.

4. Bidhan Chandra Roy: An eminent freedom fighter and qualified doctor. He was the second chief minister of West Bengal and was in office from 1948 until his death in 1962.

5. Marotrao Kannamwar: The second chief minister of Maharashtra, succeeding Y.B. Chavan in 1962 and died in 1963.

6. Balwantrai Mehta: Became chief minister of Gujarat in 1963. Mehta is the only CM to become a war casualty. During the 1965 War, his civilian aircraft was shot down by the Pakistan Air Force on September 19, 1965.

7. C.N. Annadurai: A mentor to future chief ministers of Tamil Nadu. Under his leadership, the DMK defeated the Congress in the 1967 Assembly polls. The Congress has been out of power in the state since then. Annadurai died just two years after being in power.

8. Dayanand Bandodkar: Popularly known as Bhausaheb Bandodkar, he was Goa’s first chief minister after liberation from Portuguese rule. He swept the polls in 1963, 1967 and 1972 as the head of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) and remained in power until his death in 1973.

9. Barkatullah Khan: The only Muslim chief minister of Rajasthan, Khan died of a heart attack while in office. He was chief minister from July 9, 1971 to October 11, 1973.

10. Sheikh Abdullah: He was the founder of the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference and held the post of chief minister three times between the state’s accession to India and the early 1980s, amid a turbulent relationship with the Centre and several spells of imprisonment. He was in power when he died in 1982.

11. M.G. Ramachandran: Popularly known as MGR, he was the founder of the AIADMK. He ruled Tamil Nadu for 10 years from 1977 till his death in 1987.

12. Chimanbhai Patel: He became the chief minister of Gujarat for the second time in 1990 as a part of the V.P. Singh-led National Front, but later switched over to the Congress, and continued in power till his death on February 17, 1994.

13. Beant Singh: Credited with stamping out militancy in Punjab after becoming chief minister in 1992, he was assassinated in a suicide attack at the Secretariat building in Chandigarh on August 31, 1995.

14. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy: Popularly known as YSR, Reddy was a two-time chief minister of Andhra Pradesh (2004-09). His helicopter crashed in a dense forest in Chittoor district on September 3, 2009, months after he swept the polls.

15. Dorjee Khandu: He became the chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh in 2007. He was again sworn as CM in October 2009, but died on April 30, 2011, when the helicopter in which he was returning to Itanagar from a trip to Tawang crashed.

16. Mufti Mohammad Sayeed: A two-time chief minister, Sayeed, who led the first coalition government in Jammu & Kashmir, died on January 7, 2016.

17. J. Jayalalithaa: She won the Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu for the fourth time in May 2016. However, her tenure was short-lived as she died in December 2016.