This member of the ‘joint opposition’, a very vocal one, had been of late quite upset over a court case, because an unfavourable outcome could cost her the precious Diyawanna seat.  

The much publicized move to found a brand new political party has taken a back seat with no national election in sight.

A leading light of the ‘joint opposition’, a vocal critic of yahapalanaya to boot, has kicked his long standing smoking habit.   

A certain media institution with close links to the government made elaborate preparations to hold Sinhala/Tamil New Year celebrations on the home turf of the new Big Boss.   

The second in command in yahapalanaya recently paid an official visit to the South to take stock of the ongoing development activity in the province.  

Over 100 well-wishers have already visited a prominent Sri Lankan politician currently undergoing treatment in a hospital in a foreign country.

A former fair and lovely Diyawanna member who arrived for the function escorted by her lover was highly chagrined when she became the butt of unceasing teasing by one of her onetime colleagues. 

There was a big celebration recently in a city in Rajarata presided over by the Big Boss.  

This onetime powerful Diyawanna member whose name was mentioned in connection with many a shady deal exposed in the recent past, was rumored to be in debt to banks to the tune of millions of rupees. 

There was an informal minor debate in the House lobby the other day. Several members from both sides of the great divide expressed their candid views on the subject of the debate: The case against the second son of the former strongman. 

The hero of this story is a purohita well known for his political shenanigans. Several state-owned factories turning out a sweet product indispensable to every household come under the purview of his Ministry. 

This politico, onetime bigwig of his political party pole-vaulted right into the arms of the former strongman on the eve of the January 8 big poll. And his miscalculation of the poll result proved almost politically fatal for him.  

This former purohita was returned to Diyawanna from a district in the hills at the last general polls.   

This Betel leaf one is a powerful political character hailing from the South.  

This white collar one, a onetime faithful aide of the former strongman is now marking time along with several others of his ilk in the Welikada state-run lodge.   

The curtain on the Negombo conference of the delegates of the local authorities was about to come down when one of the journalists covering the event addressed the media secretary of the former purohita of Boralugoda fame in a low tone: “Machan

A yahapalanaya purohita has utilized Rs.15 million from the funds of a state-owned corporation coming under his Ministry to renovate his official residence. 

It made newspaper headlines when a certain politico described those delegates of local authorities who attended the much publicized conference in Negombo as rogues, cheats and shysters.  Now this worthy has incurred the wrath of his ladylove for

A certain electrical engineer had castigated the Police in abusive language in the presence of the provincial Police top brass at the Puttalam District Development Coordinating Committee meeting held recently. 

This Green party purohita holding a key portfolio in yahapalanaya is also shouldering a responsible post in his party.

A certain purohita of the previous regime was appointed by a political lackey of his as a director of an important statutory body that came under his purview.

The new Big Boss and other Betel leaf party bigwigs at a special meeting held recently decided to take deterrent action against the dissidents breaching party discipline, they say.

A certain key Ministry has launched a new venture which has nothing to do with the subjects it is entrusted with. It is an Ayurvedic Spa!.

The former strongman made sensational news the other day when he opened a new bridge in a constituency considered a pocket-borough of the Horagolla clan.

The ‘joint opposition’ has now laid the groundwork for launching the much publicized new political party.

This purohita was a prominent one among those who in the recent past raised a deafening cry denouncing corruption in the public sector.

There were several hopefuls eyeing the portfolio of the Western Council that fell vacant when the Lion of the Conch Shell party was given the walking papers.

The ritual of breaking coconuts performed by the ‘joint opposition’ members at the Seenigama Devalaya to invoke a divine curse   on yahapalanaya is a subject still reverberating in political circles.

This fair one functioning as a coordinating secretary at a Ministry handling both development and international affairs...  

A leading political authority here has reportedly ‘tweeted’ his greetings to the Chinese government on the occasion of China’s traditional New Year Day.