The BJP-led coalition government in Goa is being run by ailing Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar's personal assistants, state Congress president Girish Chodankar said on Thursday, as the Opposition party launched a statewide Jan Akrosh campaign demanding the resignation of the former Defence Minister on health grounds.

"Parrikar's PAs and assistants are running the government and are dictating terms to ministers and other senior government officials. There is a complete failure of the administrative machinery in the state, Chodankar said at a function in North Goa's Pernem sub-district where the campaign was launched on Thursday.