The JO stalwarts are said to be combing the book shops and libraries in the country in search of a certain book. They are keen on laying their hands on the book at least a minute before the start of the debate on the bond affair in Diyawanna council.
A Malaysian investor who wanted to start a big business venture here went through all procedural formalities, put in place the necessary infrastructure, installed the required machinery and was about to go into production when a high political authority put a spoke in the wheel.
The Pohottuwa activists across the country have received an order from the party headquarters not to make the customary offering of a sheaf of betel when welcoming their party leader, the former Number One in the country, they say.
There’s a lady-love of a prominent purohita bent on running the entire Ministry like her household. This fashion-conscious dainty one -- from the healthcare service -- who breezes in and out like a Ministry high-up goes round issuing instructions to the staff giving the impression that she is the boss when the purohita is away.
There is a fringe party leader in the fray for a much coveted local body chair campaigning these days under the close watch of an elite security detail. The threat to his life is believed to be emanating from a high-up of the very alliance he is representing, they say.
A scion of a well- known political family candidate has drawn the ire of his kith and kin by coming forward to contest the local polls as a candidate of a political party which his dead father fought tooth and nail during his long political career.
This candidate from the Betel leaf party is in the local polls fray in an area considered the home turf of a very high political authority. He is said to be distributing application forms for jobs in Korea among the youth in the area assuring them that the jobs would be theirs if he were elected at the upcoming polls.
According to a rumour making rounds these days a leading businessman with close connections to a very high political authority has planned to transfer the ownership of one of his business undertakings to the state to cover a massive payment he is required to make to the government.
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