They are ever at loggerheads!

A tug o’ war going on between the top team member handling health and another purohita handling a subject related to health has led to a host of problems in the health sector, they say.

Two top men were conspicuous by their non-appearance!

Activists of the Telephone party are said to be in high glee that their recent anti-government protest in the city was a great success.

He has holed up to escape the farmers’ wrath!

There is a purohita at state level elected to Diyawanna from an upcountry district known for its cool climate.

An unholy tie-up!

The CID recently arrested an underworld figure of Dematagoda who had reportedly earned billions-worth of assets through illegal means.

His bid to run a one-man show resented!

A stalwart from Galle is reportedly playing a very active role in the Green party these days.

A dog in the manger!

The khaki personnel have been compelled to kowtow to a certain Ratne, a crony of a high political authority to get a transfer to a station they want, they say.

She is politico’s cat’s paw!

Sanctions for unauthorized land fillings are being freely given in the sun-setting province these days, they say.

He goes scot free thanks to the political connection!

The sibling of the driver of a very high political authority who had been on two recent occasions nabbed selling at an exorbitant price, sand mined from a river bed illegally was able to get off scot-free thanks to the political connection, they say.

Some of them have second thoughts now!

The much-publicized plan drawn up by some Blue party members to get up a new political alliance while remaining within the government has run into snags, they say.

A lukewarm response to anti-govt: campaign!

A section of the Telephone party is reportedly set to hold a series of demonstrations against the government. The main actors of this moveare said to be a group of party’s Diyawanna members who are more articulate in the council than others.

Impudent mandarin whittled down to size!

There is a prominent mandarin at a Ministry which is handling a service very essential to the public life these days. He is known to be very close to very high authorities in the country.

Now they are arrayed against the dissident Southerner!

A group offormer Green party provincial members and several former Diyawanna members who have stood by the party through thick and thin have reportedly proposed to the party leadership to join hands with the Telephone party to contest the upcoming polls.

Leader’s apathy threatens a split in the party!

At a recent meeting of the telephone party’s Diyawanna group, several members had referred to the growing public resentment against the party chief for his continued languid attitude towards the regime in power.

Has he planned to gain a head start?

There is a politico who has bragged that if he contested the upcoming provincial poll, he would surely be able to muster about three lakhs of preferentialvotes. He is said to be the head ofa constituent entity of the ruling coalition.

A son of a business baron to make his debut in politics!

The son of a wealthy political family in Pulatisipura has suddenly developed an interest in politics, they say.

They demand vigorous action against government!

A ginger group within the Telephone party is said to be gathering strength, they say.

Wheels of justice turned against the mighty!

The authorities had recently taken to task a former Diyawanna member from the Pulatisipura who had forcibly entered a forest reserve and carried out some illegal activity there.

He is to bide his time!

A certain politico who is widely expected to run for the highest post at the upcoming poll has reportedly decided not to enter the fray.

Stiff opposition to the move to form a new alliance!

The former Number One from Pulatisipura is said to be making a determined effort these days to revive the Blue party- led Betel leaf alliance which once succeeded in forming a government.

Riding the tide and going with the flow!

A very senior politico and a young politico who were known to be rivals like the proverbial mongoose and the cobra during the last general polls have patched up their differences soon after the polls and have been seen participating in political activity together in a spirit of camaraderie.

His bid to undo the damage reduced him a to a laughing stock!

A government Diyawanna member known to be leading a cushy lifestyle had recently put his foot in his mouth when he exhorted the people in the country to manage with two meals a day.

He got it without vying for it!

A vacancy in the Pohottuwa party national list occurred when a state purohita who was handling three subjects closely connected to the country’s economy resigned to take up the top post in the bank of banks.

Illegal gem mining as a sideline to politics!

A rumor that has gone viral in the country’s gem city area says that apolitical authority at state level who has turned a gem prospector and gem merchant is engaging his henchmen in illegal gem mining.

Nobody then, is somebody now!

This person, just a nonentity, who dabbled in trade union activity for a while in a key state corporation has now been appointed a director in it thanks to the patronage of a high political authority, they say.

A move to expose him as a sinner himself!

There was a big hue and cry against the laying of a walking path alongside the Parakrama Samudra bund. When the continued protests grew in intensity, the government decided to suspend the project.

A silent tribute to an astute political leader from a peer!

Hamlet without the prince?

A government Diyawanna team is said to be on a visit to Russia these days. They have planned to proceed to Ukraine from there.

The entire family prospers at state expense!

A story abuzz in political circles these days says that a high political authority who got a new portfolio recently has packed his private staff with his family members.

The act of indiscretion boomeranged on her!

A petition sent on the initiative of a lady authority pressing the removal of a female high-up from her position has boomeranged on her, they say.

Guns trained on the rebel trio again!

The government backbenchers are said to have begun taking up arms again against the rebel trio at the top team level, gabby one, pivituru one and the one of old left fame, they say.