Panaji: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar will leave to the USA tomorrow for follow up treatment of his pancreatic ailment and would return on August 17, his office has said today.
The Chief Minister’s Office in a statement released here has said that Parrikar would not be available in the State between August 10 to 17 in the State.
A senior CMO official said that Parrikar would be travelling to Mumbai tonight from where he would fly in a scheduled flight to the USA.
Sources stated that Speaker Pramod Sawant would be hoisting the tri colour for state level function of Independence Day in Panaji.
Parrikar, 62, was in the USA earlier this year for three months and had returned in June to the coastal state. The chief minister had attended the recently held 12-day-long monsoon session of State Legislative Assembly and was in Delhi on August 7 to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
