A leading politician has deployed several moles from among his loyalists to spot the party stalwarts hostile to him despite being cordial for all appearances. The leader has resorted to this move, following intelligence that a section of the front-liners is ill-disposed towards him.
The latest gossip abuzz in political circles is that a young comely fair Diyawanna member has fallen head over heels in love with a young personable member from the gem-city district. The affair has gone so far, that the fair member is now set to untie the present knot to clear the coast for their impending union, they say.
There is a State purohita with a difference. When most ‘State’ rank ones are unhappy that no worthwhile powers have been delegated to them, this one is happily telling all and sundry: “Once I was a member of the top team. I was like a peon those days. Although I am functioning at ‘State’ level now, I have been entrusted with responsible powers and functions.”
A white collar high-up of an establishment controlling public finance who is also holding high office in a state-owned company based in Wayamba has come under a death threat from a Diyawanna member hailing from the same province.
This is a story about housing. The second in command in yahapalanaya had recently split the subject of housing into two new subjects – as urban housing and village housing and assigned the two new subjects to two separate purohitas.
A private power generating project planned to be launched in Chunnakam with a view to feeding electricity to the national grid at a relatively low cost has been abandoned following a strong objection made by a powerful political authority in yahapalanaya.
A leading political authority in yahapalanaya is said to be simmering with anger over the tactless move of presenting a supplementary estimate in the council for the purchase of limousines for the official use of purohitas in the wake of two national calamities.
A head of an institution responsible for raking in much revenue for the exchequer recently met a second rung political authority of the Ministry that directly supervises his institution at the Ministry premises itself. Being old friends, they had a heart-to-heart after small talk. The white collar bigwig who was in a highly depressed state of mind, decided to pour out his troubles to the political authority. “Sir, you know
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