Will he lose the party title too?

Several Green stalwarts are said to be pressing that the Bondman now sans a portfolio be stripped of his party title as well.

It didn’t mean the parting of ways

Yahapalanaya Number One has developed a soft heart for at least two front-liners of the JO, they say.

‘Sudu Nelum’ author in action again

A new electronic media channel dedicated to the cause of promoting national reconciliation is set to be launched shortly, reports say.

Paying a price for the prized gifts

A story making rounds in political circles these days says that a group of Diyawanna members who had received ‘gratifications’ from the Bondman now down and out will soon be called upon to submit their explanations. 

They are to play Pilate after blaming it all on two guys

Yahapalanaya is planning to wash its hands off the stinking treasury bond scam by staging the act of giving walking papers to two fall guys.

She wants to run the show

The better half of a provincial purohita has become a veritable thorn in the side of the white collar high-ups of this Ministry, they say.

A ‘farewell’ birthday at public expense

A Chief purohita of a provincial body due to be dissolved shortly had celebrated his birthday on a grand scale at his office recently. After cutting the birthday cake, the provincial politico had fed pieces of cake to the members of his staff. He had even sent pieces of the birthday cake to the employees who could not attend the party. 

He is now called ‘Unanduwaa’

A leading Diyawanna politico has earned the nickname ‘Unanduwaa’ and he is often being referred to by this new name; some of his colleagues even call him ‘Unanduwaa Sir’, they say.

War begins

A gun-toting sidekick of a provincial political high-up is reportedly terrorizing the latter’s political opponents in the area, they say.

He is now on the war path

Number One in yahapalanaya chaired a Blue party locked-door meeting held in a hotel in the South recently. Even security guards were not allowed access to it.

Tie-up with the formidable rival cost him high post

The sudden removal of the chief of a revenue-earning establishment raised many an eyebrow in political and white collar circles recently. 

Greek meets Greek!

A tough-talking purohita in yahapalanaya called over his mobile an equally tough-talking governing one the other day.

A prominent politico is among her contacts

A voluptuous one visited a sexually transmitted disease clinic at a general hospital in the periphery about a fortnight ago.

Two is a crowd where one is the norm!

The diplomatic mission of a “Red-country’ based in the city held a celebration at the BMICH recently to mark that country’s National Day.

Gifts galore for his beloved!

A group of Diyawanna councilors from both sides of the divide went on a jaunt in the land of Uncle Sam recently. 

Fishing in troubled waters!

The hullabaloo triggered by the Guinness record bid- sari-pota drama is still making echoes in the hill country. Meanwhile, a Blue party politico recently raised to purohita status in the provincial body is said to be busy planning the ouster of the Chief Purohita blamed for the fiasco to fulfil his own ambition.

Courting more trouble?

This swarthy and stocky one was once the swashbuckling hero of a few bought members. Now down and out, he has launched a “Down with the Executive’ campaign from behind the scene just to spite a very high authority in yahapalanaya against whom he is bearing a grudge.

He is yet to learn his lesson

This worthy who once rubbed shoulders with the high and the mighty is now an inmate of a state-run lodge. 

In the footsteps of his master

A love-sick driver of a political heavyweight has become an intolerable nuisance to a young woman.

A mill of justice that does not grind at all

This woman white collar high-up was summarily removed from her high post on four charges and was assigned to a Ministry two and half years ago; but the formal disciplinary inquiry instituted against her later is yet to be concluded, they say.

Vanity and sanity

This young businessman, incidentally with a moniker that sounds like that of a top team member, is deeply mixed up in the treasury bond fiasco.The young man the other day called on a well-known political advisor to consult him on a way out of his predicament.

Two dogs at the same bone?

The former strongman was taking his lunch at the council canteen last week. There were only a few council members in the canteen at this time. In fact, the former strongman was alone at the table.   

Carrying tales to the rival camp

JO’s Panchaudha received a phone call from a purohita in yahapalanaya the other day. And the conversation that ensued lasted for several minutes. 

A vote with a price-tag

Tensions ran very high in the Diyawanna council on the day the much talked about 20th Amendment was due to be put to vote.

They’ve begun getting backbone from court ruling

The white collar one at the apex of public administration got a stint at Welikada for the sin of having carried out an illegal order given by his political boss. 

Distraught over loss of perks and pleasures

A chief purohita from a remote part of the country who is about to outlive his term in office called Number One the other day.

Another head rolls

So yet another Customs chief has suffered a fall from the hot seat.

Political clout knows no boundaries

While a heated argument over a disputed boundary line of a certain piece of prime land was going on, a provincial politico had got a gang of goons to descend on the scene and put up a boundary fence arbitrarily.

He is wise to why they are being so nice

“These days I have got a good many ready to serve me hand and foot and I may not find it difficult to find enough hands even to tend my cattle,” a senior purohita hailing from the Gampaha district had told his colleagues in lighter vein recently. 

Were they staging an act?

A onetime leading political heavyweight called on a political pal – a loser at the last general polls -- at the latter’s residence for a friendly chat the other day. On arrival there, he was in for a big surprise and a bigger puzzle -- the pal was having a good time with his long estranged wife.