The joint opposition group is said to have unmasked a ‘traitor’ in their ranks recently. This ‘traitor’, a Diyawanna member hailing from the South has earned a name as an ambitious guy always on the lookout for short cuts to attain high political office. And he is expected to do a pole vault into yahapalanaya taking a cue from the young one from Galle -- the latest defector from the JO camp.
The nation bade farewell to the doyen of Sinhala cinema who passed away recently at a funeral held with state honours.The organizing committee on an unanimous decision had invited a highly respected personality to deliver the funeral oration, but when the time came for it, an uninvited character who appeared from nowhere began addressing the gathering.
This white collar high-up heading a key State establishment has a daughter domiciled abroad. She and her family members were here on a holiday recently and the indulgent father generously used the resources of the State-owned body he helms to provide all facilities necessary for them to enjoy their holiday here, they say.
A group of purohitas met in a familiar joint in a city suburb to share the good cheer of the New Year season. While engaged in small talk and political gossip, their attention turned to two to three powerful white collar bigwigs who are said to be enjoying an extravagant lifestyle at public expense.
This purohita who once held high office in the Green Party went on pilgrimage to India and Nepal recently. During his pilgrimage to the Himalayan State where the Buddha was born, he called on a well-known ‘Nadi-vakya’ soothsayer to get a reading of his political future and the outcome of several pending court cases against him.
The JO stalwart from the upcountry, addressing a public meeting in his hometown, had fired a broadside at the top men of the former regime for the blunders they had committed while in power, and the ousted strongman and his clan now quite close to the JO have taken umbrage at this attack.
A story doing rounds in political circles says that yet another belle of theatre and cinema of yesteryear is making a mint by operating a sex racket catering to a select clientele of some lascivious senior purohitas and business tycoons.
A fair Diyawanna member, who faces the threat of forfeiting her seat in the august assembly over a ‘personal problem’, was for some time working her way into the graces of a high political authority seeking his influence to sort out her problem.
The leaders of the Betel leaf party held a series of propaganda meetings at the grassroots level across the country in the recent past. Some of these meetings held to strengthen the party organization at the periphery ended in chaos when organized attempts were made to sabotage them by interested groups from within the party.
If you heard that a 53-perch block of land had been sold for a price as high as Rs.530 million, you would surely presume it should be a block located in a commercial centre or a precious residential area in Colombo!
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