PANAJI: Deputy Speaker of the Goa Legislative Assembly and ruling BJP lawmaker Michael Lobo on Tuesday Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar will continue in office as long as he is alive but on account of pancreatic ailment his health condition keeps fluctuating.

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In an event organised by a village panchayat in his Assembly constituency of Calangute in North Goa, Lobo said, As long as Mr Parrikar is running the state, even in his ill-health, the current BJP-led alliance government will continue to exist, Mr Lobo told reporters at an event. Lobo said, "He (Parrikar) is one person who will never want to rest. Till he is alive in this world, I think he will not leave the chair. He will continue working for the people of Goa," He further added, "As long as he can run with his mind working and he can give instructions to officers, I think this government will continue. His health - sometimes it improves, sometimes it goes down - because (with) a disease like pancreatic ailment which he is suffering from, you cannot be stable all the time.”

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MohanParrikar is being treated for advanced pancreatic ailment for more than a year, during which he has been in and out of hospitals in Goa, Mumbai, Delhi and New York.