In a sudden development Leader of the Opposition, Mr Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar 55 complained of uneasiness following a bout of acidity at around 0900 hrs today 26/5/2009 and after a preliminary check up with family physician Dr Bhandari Panaji was advised admission to the Apollo Victor Hospital at Malbhat Margao.
After preliminary tests scans et al at the Hospital he underwent an angiograph at 1106 hrs and is now recuperating well. When this writer spoke to his older brother at the Hospital this evening at 2043 hrs he said that his brother has such bouts of acidity apparently owing to a stressful life routine but he always takes it in his stride. This time however he may have had some other premonitions and perhaps he felt admission to the Hospital was in order, and rightly so. There were around 117 visitors who had signed the visitors register. However there was a steady stream of visitors besides these according to the Hospital authorities. Later at 2100 hrs CM Mr Digamber Kamat visited him at the Hospital. Apparently according to some party workers that this writer spoke Mr Parrikar has had a hectic schedule attending the adhoc Committee meet on Home on 21/05/2009 for the first time held at the Collectorate Margao and he also attended to several other programmes until yesterday. Recently the grape vine was that post Lok Sabha elections the dismal performance of the BJP led NDA and the local events in Goa wherein atleast four to five BJP MLA's were reported to be planning to quit the BJP to join the INC appears to have unnerved the BJP organisational and legislative set up and this too may have had a bearing on himm There seems to be some merit in this view as post LS elections Mr Parrikar had not articulted his views vociferously as in the past apparently reading the writing on the wall. However, for a workaholic Mr Parrikar and a go getter one can expect him back in the saddle sooner than expected. Of his two sons one is with him at the Hospital and the other abroad. GODFREY J. I. GONSALVES, BORDA, MARGAO, 403 602, GOA. (INDIA) +91 98221 58584 (24 HRS) [email protected] Explore and discover exciting holidays and getaways with Yahoo! India Travel http://in.travel.yahoo.com/
