Team Herald
PANJIM: The arrival of BJP national organisational secretary B L Santhosh, after Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, was admitted at GMC following internal bleeding, did not bear any fruit and the meetings he held remained inconclusive.
After meeting former chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar, who refused to compromise, Santhosh did not meet any success at the BJP core committee meeting too, which was held Tuesday morning.
Sources said, Santhosh did try to persuade many BJP leaders on leadership change but did not meet any desirable success.
“It’s high time the party takes a decision on the future leader considering the deteriorating condition of chief minister. But the central leader did not have any solution to the crisis,” said a source in the BJP core committee.
Santhosh held the core committee meeting at Margao late last night and then left for Bangalore. The meeting deliberated on planning strategies for both Lok Sabha seats in the ensuing election and taking ahead the party programmes, sources said.
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CM discharged, returns home
PANJIM: Four days after he was admitted in the Goa Medical College, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar was discharged from the hospital Tuesday evening and returned to his private residence.
Parrikar, who is suffering from pancreatic cancer, was on Friday rushed to GMC in an ambulance and on Tuesday returned in his official car.
“Chief Minister @manoharparrikar has been discharged from GMC, his health parameters are stable. He will continue with his treatment at his residence,” the CMO tweeted.
On Tuesday Health Minister Vishwajit Rane had said that Parrikar would be discharged on Tuesday or Wednesday. “All his health parameters were normal and his condition is stable,” he had said.
