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Parrikar should hand over charge, administration paralysed: BJP ally

  •   Sat, Nov 17 2018 01:17:58 PM

Panaji, Nov 17 (IANS): Ailing Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar should hand over charge since the state administration under his leadership has been paralysed for eight months, a BJP ally said here on Saturday.

"The central committee of the party has resolved to urge the government to find a replacement for Parrikar, who is ill, at the earliest," Deepak Dhavaliakar, President of the ruling alliance party Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP), told the media after a meeting of the central committee.

"Because of his illness, administration has been paralysed for eight months. He should hand over charge to someone else as soon as possible."

Parrikar is suffering from advanced pancreatic cancer and has been in and out of hospitals in Goa, Mumbai, New York and Delhi for nearly nine months.

He returned from New Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences on October 14 and has not moved out of his private residence, for any official event since.

The Opposition as well ruling coalition allies have demanded the Chief Minister's resignation, claiming that the administration has come to a standstill.

Expressing support for mining dependants in the state, Dhavalikar said that his party would participate in an upcoming protest meet at Delhi's Jantar Mantar grounds, during the forthcoming winter session of Parliament, to seek resumption of the banned mining sector.

"The MGP will participate in the protest meet by mining dependants at Jantar Mantar in solidarity with mining dependants seeking resumption of mining in Goa," he said.

Mining in Goa was banned in February by the Supreme Court, faulting the state government for irregularities in granting second renewals of 88 mining leases, while also directing the state government to allot the mining leases afresh.

BJP leaders in the state as well as National President of the party Amit Shah has assured that the Centre will work out a mechanism to resume mining in Goa at the earliest.

Resumption of mining in Goa is a key issue in the coastal state in the lead up to the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
  

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  • Rodney, Nasik

    Mon, Nov 19 2018

    It's Time we in Goa get some justice, nobody Listen to our complaints pertaining to daily electricity going off and on for hours, no water for days, the roads are in a bad condition, delay in matters by government offices.etc. I wish someone think to solve these basic problems in Goa.

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  • Marian Menezes, Mangalore

    Sat, Nov 17 2018

    He wants to die as CM that why he is stick to the post
    Feed him some formalin laced fish and he will be better.

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  • francis lobo, Mangalore

    Sat, Nov 17 2018

    The BJP government wants to do a record by retaining Parrikar as CM. He is also on the same way like Ananth Kumar . But BJP wants to retain power and keeping Parrikar alive only can do it

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