PANJIM: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who is in USA for his treatment, is likely to miss the BJP President Amit Shah’s visit on May 13 which is aimed to draw strategy for the 2019 Lok Sabha election.
Also, the three-minister Cabinet Advisory Committee (CAC) is set to get another one-month extension till May 31.
Parrikar, who is admitted in a hospital in USA since March 7, is being treated for pancreatic related ailment. Chief Minister has been ill since mid-February.
A senior BJP functionary told HERALD that the medical treatment of Parrikar in USA will be completed by May 15, post which he would stay back for less than a week, before flying back to India. “Chief Minister told me that he would not be in Goa during Amitji visit. His treatment will conclude somewhere by May 15,” the BJP leader said.
“There is no clarity so far whether he would be flown back to Goa from USA directly or will go to Mumbai Lilavati Hospital. Before May end, Chief Minister should be in Goa,” he said.
Parrikar was initially treated in Lilavati Hospital, before doctors advised him to travel to USA for advance treatment.
BJP chief Amit Shah will visit Goa on May 13, wherein he will hold series of meetings with Party MLAs, coalition partners, and karyakartas to draw up strategy for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
A major meeting of the party workers will be addressed by Shah at Shyama Prasad Mukherjee stadium. More than 10,000 people are expected to attend.
Shah had last visited Goa in July 2017; the visit that had sparked major controversy after Shah addressed public meeting in the premise of International Airport at Dabolim.
Meanwhile, sources confirmed that CAC is all set to get the third extension, the order of which is likely to be issued on April 30.
Before leaving for advance treatment, Chief Minister had constituted the CAC comprising of BJP Minister Francis D’Souza, MGP Minister Ramkrishna Dhavalikar and GFP Minister Vijai Sardesai, to advise government on various issues. It was a temporary arrangement, which got its first extension on April 1.
