Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar arrived in Goa on Wednesday from the United States of America where he had been for a medical check-up related to his pancreatic ailment. The Chief Minister landed at the Dabolim airport in the evening and was seen walking out of the airport terminal carrying an urn containing ashes of a former prime minister and senior BJP leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He was accompanied by Union Minister of State for AYUSH Shripad Naik and state BJP president Vinay Tendulkar. Sources in the BJP said that Tendulkar and other BJP leaders had landed a little earlier from Delhi, bringing with them two urns containing ashes of Vajpayee for immersion in the Mandovi and Zuari rivers in the state.