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MARGAO
Is the arrangement unveiled by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar before leaving for Mumbai en route to the USA worked out following reservations expressed in certain quarters over PWD Minister Sudin Dhavlikar’s leadership in heading a stop-gap arrangement?
Even before the Chief Minister worked out the arrangement, by constituting the three-member panel consisting of leaders of the three alliance partners, speculation was rife on Sunday that the PWD Minister and MGP leader may not enjoy the privilege of heading any working arrangement despite his de facto status as No 2 in the Cabinet.
Political observers say that by constituting the three member panel, the Chief Minister has sought to achieve two objectives in a single stroke -- first, giving representation to leaders of all the three alliance partners, and at the same time contain any resentment building against the PWD Minister in the political scheme of things.
Sources in the ruling coalition informed that the Sudin, though occupying the No 2 position by virtue of being sworn in after the Chief Minister, hardly enjoyed the confidence of the majority of ministers constituting the Cabinet. Most of the ministers, sources said, had in private raised an issue with the PWD minister,
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Understand my absence and
continue to bless me: CM
PANAJI: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar in an emotional video message broadcast through his Twitter account has called on the people of Goa to continue to bless him as he spends the coming weeks being treated for a disease, which he hasn’t named in the video.
“Dear Goans,
I want to thank you all over the last fifteen days you have prayed for me and i have received your blessings because of which I became better. For the first check up I’m going to Mumbai and to get alright completely, if the doctors in Mumbai recommend, I may be have to go out of the country for a few days for treatment. During this treatment, just as you have blessed me over these days, I trust that you will continue to bless me and understand my absence for a few days,” Parrikar said.
