Will he make the wrong choice for the third time?

The former Green party secretarial one who worked for Saji with his heart and soul at the recent big poll is said to be downhearted these days.

Costly ploy attracted the crowd!

A propaganda meeting of a main political party was held in a town in the South the other day. The responsibility of organizing this meeting had fallen on a politico hailing from the area known to be an ace political strategist.

Using political clout to extort money!

The khaki authorities have reportedly received a complaint that a sibling of a prominent Diyawanna politico had extorted money from the drivers of vehicles being used for transport of employees of a leading garment factory.

He doesn’t want to pay off his creditor!

A gravel supplier-businessman is said to be relentlessly pursuing a new purohita these days.

He is up to old antics!

This Diyawanna politico known once for his high-handed acts was on good behaviour for the last five years. However, the man has now returned to his villainous ways, they say.

Lost face trying to cut a figure!

This former provincial politico in an apparent bid to show that he was hobnobbing with the high and mighty, got into the vehicle of the newly appointed high political authority, but had to suffer a loss of face when the latter brusquely asked him to get down, they say.

Top party posts up for grabs!

Changes in the top positions in the main Northern alliance are said to be in the offing.

It was not diplomacy!

There is a lady serving as our country’s envoy in a powerful country in the world. There is a serious allegation against her that despite being a career diplomat, her bias against certain local political leaders influences her judgment in the discharge of her official duties as well.

He has changed his mind!

The statement made by the Green party’s secretarial one that the next general poll too would be led by the current Green leader himself has highly ruffled and nettled the Saji loyalists, they say.

Rumblings of discontent!

Several Blue party Diyawanna politicos are said to be very unhappy about the step-motherly treatment being meted out to them by some Pohottuwa high-ups. Some of them had expressed their displeasure over this treatment in public.

Poised to quit?

A group of Ranil loyalists had vowed to quit politics for good if the party leadership were offered to Saji.

His alternative to come as a surprise?

Several Blue stalwarts from Pulatisipura have made a strong plea to the former Number One to solicit the Mahaweli portfolio for that position is very important for their area. A select group of loyalists hosted to a grand dinner had first made this request to the former Number One.

Shifting goal-posts!

In the run-up to the big poll, a leader of a minor political party said in a Twitter message that Gota winning the race would be something so far-fetched as the skies coming down or the earth splitting up. Gota won though neither phenomenon occurred.

Sittings marred by fisticuffs!

Scuffles had broken out among the members of the same political party during the sittings of a people’s body of a main city in the West recently, they say.

Drunken revel held him up!

A Pohottuwa purohita at state level had received a severe tongue-lashing from party supporters when he got about five hours late in attending a public meeting organized on his own initiative.

One-time official bungalow now a venue for political powwows!

Unhappy that he can no longer go round the world!

There is a white-collar high-up at the august assembly for whom life has become all gloom and despondency ever since a very high political authority had gone out of office, they say.

He has turned a blind eye to people’s suffering!

This bigwig placed in charge of a province with a big city by a very high political authority has about 20 vehicles at his disposal and he is expected to look into the needs of the people in the province, but so far, he has not gone around the province where the people are badly affected by the flash floods, they say.

She was too haughty to introduce herself!

This gabby politico sworn in as a purohita recently had appointed his wife as the private secretary

Eyeing a governorship!

There is a security high-up now in retirement who claims that he is very popular among the people in the North.

Wedding bells for an active campaigner!

This young former Green purohita from the Colombo District who was thick in the campaign for Saji was in for an acute disappointment when the latter lost, but he had scored a personal victory by winning the girl he fell in love with and was courting while engaged in electioneering, they say.

They didn’t take his threat seriously!

A Pohottuwa stalwart, a former purohita, had threatened to take poison if he were overlooked when assigning top team portfolios, they say.

He didn’t remain neutral after all?

Government top men going through a post-poll analysis have discovered to their surprise that Pohottuwa in Pulatisipura had polled about twenty to thirty thousand votes less than the estimated mark, they say.

Seeking deliverance from deities!

This lady who held a high legal post has now fallen into hot water due to a private telephone conversation that has gone public.

Fortune spawns many friends!

A large crowd of well-wishers flocked to the Wijerama Road official residence of the former strongman the other day on hearing that he was to be sworn in as the Number Two in the country.

A shake-up in the offing?

The ‘Bell’ party is in turmoil, they say.The party stalwarts would have come to terms with the defeat. But what has hurt them immeasurably is the defeat being so bad as to lose the deposit. Most of them say that the Prince himself should take the rap for the debacle.

Both were losers!

There were two leading Pohottuwa politicos in this particular district and they had been informed that only one of them could be offered a portfolio as the size of the interim top team had to be kept small. However, both had expressed the wish to have it!

Boos for a farewell!

This white-collar high-up, a buddy of a former political authority in a gem-rich area had to quit his high position with the regime change.

Office peons and labourers working as drivers!

This political authority while in office had given appointments to a number of his hangers-on as office peons and labourers and assigned them to 11 offices in the Western Province.

To quit politics in disgust?

The fall of the government has led to chaos in the Green party.