Now both are to contest!

Political maverick Naga who has been grooming himself as an aspirant to top office for several years later entered into an alliance with the other maverick Palle, who entered the fray more recently.

He is to be told where he stands!

The Kalutara betel- leaf rebel who has now burnt boats behind Pohottuwa has begun announcing at public rallies that he will be the Blue candidate at the big poll round the corner.

Wearing a long face after being rebuked!

Green purohita Mangie, now a strong backer of Punchi Dasa’s candidacy for the top office had the other day aired a grievance to the grey-haired leader of the Northern main alliance.

Green chair to get the chop?

A move is afoot to replace the current chair of the Green party with a new face, they say.

Tastes differ!

A story doing rounds in political circles says that two young politicos in milky white national dress surprised the guests at a dinner hosted by a senior top team member at his residence in the South the other day when they wolfed down a generous helping of fried pork chops alone.

They turned their guns on him!

A former provincial purohita had come in for severe flak from the political party’s electorate level organizers who were summoned for a powwow the other day.

A high-water bill for a vacated official residence!

This onetime political authority had vacated his official residence when he ceased to hold office about three months ago.

They want Easter Sunday carnage suspect reinstated!

Some prominent politicos are said to be making a bid to have a former employee of the august assembly arrested in connection with the Easter Sunday carnage, reinstated in the post he held.

Double -dealing?

A group of Punchi Dasa loyalists had begun collecting signatures for a letter requesting the party leadership to nominate him as the party candidate for the upcoming big poll.

Turning the back on the setting Sun

A certain governing one recently organized a pooja with much fanfare to bestow blessings on a very high political authority.

Another Blue heavyweight set to join Pohottuwa?

The roly-poly Blue senior from Uva is getting set for a somersault to Pohottuwa, they say.

A meeting with dairy cattle

The responsibility of organizing public meetings and seminars for the Pohottuwa candidate to attend, has been assigned to the alliance’s Diyawanna politicos.

Beauty queen battered at wedding reception!

It was a real-life incident which lent ample weight to the truism that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. In this particular incident, the victim too had been a woman! It happened at a wedding reception at a high-end hotel in the South.

Vote-buying has begun?

A prominent politico of a main political party planning to contest a seat at the coming general poll, has begun doling out Rs. 2 lakh each to party supporters to renovate their house roofs, they say.

A ‘surprise dance’ at a prominent wedding!

A ‘surprise dance’ by several Bollywood actresses is to be a highlight of an important wedding due to be held in a week or so, they say.

Electorate not big enough for both!

Two ‘Nayakes’ looking forward to contesting the Nuwara-Eliya district on the Pohottuwa ticket are said to be already in a battle over the preference vote. Both of them know that Nuwara-Eliya, given its predominant estate sector vote, is not big enough for two ‘Nayakes’ and each is out to eliminate the other from the scene

Hope springs eternal in human heart!

While the crisis in the Green party over the selection of a candidate for the big poll is deepening, several other party seniors too have begun entertaining the hope of being the candidate.

They just looked the other way!

Number One the other day arrived in a high-end hotel to attend the wedding of the son of a leading businessman.

Website is his only by name!

A coterie of backers of an aspirant to top office has hit upon a novel propaganda gimmick, they say.

Trying to bell the cat?

The head of this city council has now left the country on a foreign visit and the deputy currently acting in the post is said to be planning a coup to oust the head.

Jeers for latecomer!

This politico who was rather late in joining a new political party was greeted with boos and catcalls by the gathering when he showed up at a public meeting organized by a stalwart of the new party.

Sound and fury for nothing!

A public reception to a VIP vying for a top office in the country had been organized on a grand scale in the Kandy area recently.

Nod on condition!

A get-together to express goodwill to Punchi Dasa was held the other day at the Colombo residence of a close relative of ‘a lion-like’ state purohita.

Siblings’ battle behind the scene!

There was intense jockeying in the recent past by interested parties to have their favourite appointed to a very high post in a security service. In fact, the appointment made later created a stir in certain diplomatic circles.

He wanted only the car!

A prominent top team member of the government paid an official visit to Jaffna recently.

His win, a foregone conclusion?

There is a minor political party leader who has made it a habit to address a prominent aspirant to top office as ‘Janadhipatitumani’.

Rethinking the affiliations?

A leader of a political front in the upcountry estate sector had recently called on a leading astrologer in India to get a reading of his political future.

Warned not to dig his own grave!

Several Blue Diyawanna members have planned a strategy to prevent Number One from going into an alliance with Pohottuwa, they say.

Canvassing through social media!

Now that Shantha has quit the national list to make it to Diyawanna direct from the preference list, it is the Blue party led by Number One that has got the turn to fill the former list’s vacant slot.

A foreign involvement in local politics?

A friendly foreign country is said to have donated 10,000 battery-operated multi-colour light bulbs to illuminate the venue of a political meeting of the main party held with much fanfare the other day.