A fair and lovely one who contested the recent mini-poll in an area where a kingdom once flourished had suffered defeat. However, a leading politico had intervened to offer her a ‘list seat’ to the chagrin of the other candidates including a woman candidate who made legitimate claims to the slots on the list, they say.
This is a very unusual story about a head of a statutory body. Employees in his main office hate to go near him. And it’s a nightmarish experience for the directors to sit with him at board meetings. It is not because this bigwig is fierce or menacing, bad-tempered and given to tantrums either. It is because the odor exuding from his body is so awful and nauseating!
Two politically significant events said to be in the offing – moving a no confidence motion against Number Two and another reshuffle of the top team have become the subjects of much discourse in political circles these days. Meanwhile, government high-ups have begun breathing fire at their own bosses. Fast developing political instability and uncertainty about their own political future appear to have highly shaken almost all high authoriti
Number One who on an official visit to Nippon, got a jolt when a group of Sri Lankan Muslims domiciled in that country staged a demonstration opposite the hotel where he and his entourage checked in. It soon transpired the Muslim community had organized this demonstration to register their protest against the anti-Muslim riots that broke out in and around Kandy.
A leading purohita from the South has of late become rude and discourteous to his constituents. The queer behavior he has developed since the recent mini-polls has become a matter for both puzzlement and amusement of the people in the electorate, they say.
A senior purohita from the central hills, a heavyweight of a main political party to boot, had called the former strongman at the height of rioting that broke out in and around the sacred city to make an urgent request. “I want to make an earnest request to you, Sir!” he had begun. “Please make an appeal to the entire nation to remain calm and peaceful!”
Many politicos had deliberately kept away from the district in the hills when it was hit by communal riots, but most of them were seen later in a long queue to show their face to a very high authority when the latter visited the hill capital in a damage control bid, they say.
While the legal snags and other issues in the way of constituting newly elected local bodies are being resolved, the main political parties are reportedly in a race to buy members elected from minor political parties and independent groups in a bid to have their own nominee as the mayor or the chairperson.
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