The head of a very important institution linked to liquor is to go on retirement shortly and a certain white collar one holding a subordinate rank in this institution is said to be making a desperate bid to grab the high office about to fall vacant through political influence, they say.
Visitors to an upcountry town and the shop employees there the other day looked on with curiosity mixed with amusement as three persons who arrived on motor bikes began in a desperate hurry tearing off some posters pasted on parapet walls, building walls, electricity posts etc. in the town.
A group of purohitas were taking an upward ride in the Diyawanna council elevator the other day. And a young purohita from Rajarata holding a high post in the Blue party and a colleague from Puttalam area whose name is being mentioned often in connection with Vilpattu national park were seen engrossed in a conversation during the ride.
The Betel leaf party leadership summoned all Western Province local politicos seeking party candidacy at the upcoming PC polls for a powwow recently. Eighteen sitting PC members and several Blue party front-liners had attended this meeting, they say.
A few members of the once prestigious now defunct CCS had forayed into politics in our country from time to time. It may be news for some particularly those belonging to the younger generation that the last surviving member from that rare tribe happens to be a senior member of yahapalanaya top team. He is a holder of a doctorate too.
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