A billionaire businessman politico hailing from a district north of the hill capital is throwing away peacock notes like mad in a bid to subdue the growing dissent in the area against his political boss.

A large number of local politicos who once ruled the roost in now dissolved small governments had gone vociferously critical of a high political authority. And the billionaire had taken over the task of buying the silence of these rebel politicos.

Once uproarious local politicos in the entire district have now gone mute, they say.