Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar visited the construction site of an under-construction bridge across the Mandovi river along with officials to take stock of the activities onsite, on Sunday.
The visit comes ahead of the Bombay High Court at Goa’s order on a petition seeking to know Mr. Parrikar’s health status.
The photographs, some of which were released by the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) on social media platforms, showed a frail-looking Mr. Parrikar, with medical appendage suspended from his nose and wearing a safety helmet, speaking to Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation officials and L&T engineers at the construction site of the third bridge across the Mandovi river off Panaji.
“CM later also inspected the ongoing works of the new Zuari bridge,” a statement issued by the CMO said on Sunday evening.
On Saturday, the CMO released pictures of Mr. Parrikar unveiling a foundation plaque of NIT Goa’s new premises at his private residence in the presence of Union Minister for Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar.
The Bombay High Court at Goa last week reserved its judgement, after hearing a petition filed by a local politician Trajano D’Mello who has sought that the Court direct Goa Chief Secretary to evaluate ailing Chief Minister’s health by a panel of expert doctors and release the medical report in public domain.
The Chief Secretary in an affidavit filed before the Court has maintained that the petition was political in nature and has argued for Mr. Parrikar’s right to privacy.
