Goa no longer to be 'party capital' as CM Parrikar readies new law on public consumption of alcohol
India | July 17, 2018 8:34 ISTCM Parrikar also warned that littering the state with beer bottles would also attract a steeper fine.
CM Parrikar also warned that littering the state with beer bottles would also attract a steeper fine.
Speaking at the Goa IT event, Parrikar said that he had issued a statement to stop the circulation of rumours regarding the presence of unsafe fish in the coastal state.
Parrikar said he returned to Goa after last year's state assembly elections because his heart was here.
Parrikar spent nearly three months in the US where he underwent treatment for a pancreatic ailment and returned home last week.
Parrikar began his day with a visit to the Devki Krishna temple at Khandola village in North Goa.
On March 5, Goa CM Manohar Parrikar went to Mumbai again for his further check-up and from there he was referred to the USA.
Before leaving Goa, Parrikar had formed a cabinet advisory committee to guide the state administration on governance and other issues, in his absence. He has been monitoring the affairs of the state from the US.
He said 2019 was a significant year in Indian politics and asked the party workers to work in full vigour to ensure a thorough win for the BJP.
"Chief Minister took an update of general and administrative matters in Goa. He also informed me that he is starting with (the) second phase of treatment from Monday," the speaker was quoted as saying in the statement.
"Further treatment on Chief Minister, Manohar Parrikar has begun and he is responding well. The next review will be done in two weeks," Kamat said.
A section of leaders said that, in the remote chance of a change in leadership, the reins of the government would still be with the BJP and not its coalition partners.
Sources in Mumbai's Lilavati Hospital and outside, and Goa Medical College and Hospital -- both health facilities in which the former Defence Minister was admitted since February 15 -- have confirmed the cancer.
Parrikar was hospitalised in Mumbai's Lilavati Hospital on Monday for the next course of his treatment. However, now the doctors have advised to move him to US.
Before heading to Mumbai, he called a meeting of his government's senior ministers at his private residence in Dona Paula near here and formed a cabinet advisory committee to take administrative decisions in his absence.
Parrikar was rushed to the Lilavati Hospital on February 15, where according to the CMO, he was diagnosed for "mild pancreatitis".
Parrikar was admitted to the Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai on February 15 for "mild pancreatitis" .
Late on Sunday evening, Parrikar was rushed to the government-run health facility after he complained of dehydration and low blood pressure.
He was suffering from mild dehydration at the time he was taken to GMCH.
Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar was admitted to the Goa Medical College and Hospital here this evening after he complained of uneasiness, a GMCH official said.
"There is no existence of 'drug mafia' in Goa. However, Goa being a tourist destination, narcotic drugs are smuggled in Goa for trade, consumption and transit," Parrikar said.
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