A Chief purohita of a provincial body due to be dissolved shortly had celebrated his birthday on a grand scale at his office recently. After cutting the birthday cake, the provincial politico had fed pieces of cake to the members of his staff. He had even sent pieces of the birthday cake to the employees who could not attend the party.
The hullabaloo triggered by the Guinness record bid- sari-pota drama is still making echoes in the hill country. Meanwhile, a Blue party politico recently raised to purohita status in the provincial body is said to be busy planning the ouster of the Chief Purohita blamed for the fiasco to fulfil his own ambition.
This swarthy and stocky one was once the swashbuckling hero of a few bought members. Now down and out, he has launched a “Down with the Executive’ campaign from behind the scene just to spite a very high authority in yahapalanaya against whom he is bearing a grudge.
This woman white collar high-up was summarily removed from her high post on four charges and was assigned to a Ministry two and half years ago; but the formal disciplinary inquiry instituted against her later is yet to be concluded, they say.
“These days I have got a good many ready to serve me hand and foot and I may not find it difficult to find enough hands even to tend my cattle,” a senior purohita hailing from the Gampaha district had told his colleagues in lighter vein recently.
A onetime leading political heavyweight called on a political pal – a loser at the last general polls -- at the latter’s residence for a friendly chat the other day. On arrival there, he was in for a big surprise and a bigger puzzle -- the pal was having a good time with his long estranged wife.
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