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.

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.

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.

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

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 hel

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 e

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.