Goa Congress president Girish Chodankar. | Photo Credit: ANI

Panaji: A day after Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar attended an event amid his battle with cancer and uttered ‘How’s the Josh’ dialogue from the movie Uri, the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee mocked the CM, asking him to worry about ‘Goa’s josh’.

“Manohar Parrikar aur BJP ko pehle hosh mein aane do,baad mein unhe pata chalega ki josh kahan hai. Unko malum nahi hai ki Goa mein kya ho raha hai. Unki constituency mein peene ko paani nahi hai, jobs nahi hai, Assembly nahi chal rahi hai (Manohar Parrikar and the Bharatiya Janata Party should first regain their consciousness, then they can worry where the fervour is. They are unaware of what’s happening in Goa. Parrikar’s own constituency does not have drinking water, there aren’t jobs in the state, the Assembly isn’t functional),” Goa Congress president Girish Chodankar said, according to news agency ANI.

Carrying forward the trend started by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Parrikar on Sunday asked the audience, “How’s the josh?” to which the audience replied, “High Sir”. Before addressing the audience who had come to attend the inaugural event of the bridge over river Mandovi, Parrikar said, “I will transfer my josh to you and sit here and speak a few words.”

Goa Congress President, Girish Chodankar: Manohar Parrikar aur BJP ko pehle hosh mein aane do,baad mein unhe pata chalega ki josh kahan hai. Unko malum nahi hai ki Goa mein kya ho raha hai. Unki constituency mein peene ko paani nahi hai, jobs nahi hai, assembly nahi chal rahi hai pic.twitter.com/bpxibYWgum — ANI (@ANI) January 28, 2019

This is the first time that Parrikar has addressed a public gathering since he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year. Before this, he was seen in public when he arrived for the inspection of an under-construction bridge on river Mandovi.

Parrikar has been in and out of hospitals in Goa, Mumbai, Delhi, and New York since February last year during which Finance Minister Arun Jaitley got the additional Defence portfolio.

PM Modi had used the ‘How’s the josh?’ dialogue from the recently Bollywood movie ‘Uri: The Surgical Strike’ while inaugurating the National Museum of Indian Cinema in the financial capital in Mumbai earlier this month.

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday watched the movie at a cinema theatre in Bengaluru with Army veterans and also said the same dialogue with the viewers.