Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar flown to AIIMS treatment
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar flown to AIIMS treatment Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has left Goa for Delhi Saturday morning for treatment at AIIMS hospital in Delhi. He was flown to Delhi in an air ambulance on Monday morning around 8 am. The chief minister, who returned from the US after a medical check-up on September 7, was admitted to a private hospital at North Goa’s Candolim on Thursday evening. The chief minister spoke to BJP president Amit Shah on Friday evening to update him about him about his health. The chief minister has not resumed office ever since he returned to Goa on September 6 after his third visit to the USA and had to be almost immediately re-hospitalized at a private hospital in Candolim village 10 kilometres from here. Sudin Dhavalikar, the public works minister and alliance partner Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) was expected to be given interim charge of the ministries handled by Parrikar. Dhavalikar, who was appointed leader of the Goa Legislative Assembly during Parrikar’s earlier visit to the hospital, told reporters on Friday that any talk of leadership change at this stage was premature. A decision on temporary allocation of the chief minister’s portfolios is likely to be taken after a team of BJP’s central observer visits the state either on Saturday or Sunday. The State government has not issued any official statement on the health of the chief minister. Leadership is a sensitive issue with the presence of Parrikar being the only common factor holding the BJP alliance together. On Friday a host of ministers and party leaders called on the Chief Minister at the hospital. Parrikar had left for the USA for his second follow up visit on August 10 and was initially expected to be away only for a period of one week. He returned on August 20 but was flown to Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital the next day. While he was initially expected to return to the state on August 25 his return was delayed till August 29. He left again for the US on August 30. On February 16, the State Administration informed that the Chief Minister “is well and under observation. He is likely to be discharged in a day or two. It is a case of mild pancreatitis.” The next day, however, it was reported that the Chief Minister was “under monitoring for his inflamed pancreas” with the assumption that his treatment would be longer than initially anticipated and the Goa Legislative Assembly’s budget session initially planned for three weeks was curtailed to only four days. -PTC News
