Goa Public Works Department Minister Sudin Dhavalikar has been admitted to a hospital in Mumbai where he has undergone a surgery, a family member said today, but refused to specify his illness.
Dhavalikar, 61, was admitted to the private hospital in Mumbai yesterday.
"The minister has undergone a surgery and is recovering well. All are sincerely requested not to speculate about his health," his brother Sandeep Madhav Dhavalikar said in a statement issued here.
"We are sure that the blessings of Goan people are with him. He is expected to be back to work in a few days," the release said.
Sudin Dhavalikar's Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party is a constituent of the BJP-led coalition government in Goa.
He is the senior-most minister in the government, and was a member of the Cabinet Advisory Committee set up by Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar before he had left for USA in March for a health treatment.
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He is the second minister from the Goa cabinet to be hospitalised in Mumbai.
Goa's Power Minister Pandurang Madkaikar was admitted to the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in the capital city of Maharashtra last month after he suffered a brain stroke.
He is still undergoing treatment at the hospital.
Earlier this year, Parrikar was admitted to the Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai for a pancreatic ailment.
He later went to a hospital in the US for his health treatment and returned after three months.
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