A one-time purohita of the yahapalanaya regime was delivering a lecture in the Diyawanna council lobby the other day. His one-man audience was a prominent member elected from the East and the latter in fact, had once functioned as the political chief of that province. 

A one- time left radical, the former purohita who had to spend a few days at the state lodge himself since the new regime assuming office, is said to have been among those responsible for sending some prominent persons of the new regime to the state lodge when they were in power.

His lecture to the member from the East who, according to a rumour afloat, was seriously considering throwing in his lot with the new regime, had been aimed at dissuading him from doing so. He had reportedly told the member from the East: “Don’t be in a hurry to get a position of power… This regime cannot last for more than six months! Wo won’t allow them to be in power beyond that period…!” The member from the East had said noncommittally:  “Let us wait and see!” He had later conveyed what the former purohita told him to the new regime high-ups, they say.