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Fri, 08 Nov 2024 Today's Paper
Three to four Diyawanna members of a main political party in the opposition had recently called on a Pohottuwa bigwig.
This politico once ran for the highest office and later had to spend some time in the state lodge as well. A belligerent character, he is now occupying a main chair in the Telephone party.
There is a Top Team member elected to Diyawanna from a district close to Colombo. By the way, he is a senior member of a political family there.
There is a taciturn Diyawanna politico who has reportedly said that he will remain an ‘independent’ in the council despite being a senior member of the Top Team!
Having learnt that new governing ones were to be appointed, a politico, a former purohita had called on a bigwig at the country’s main office and had told him that if he were appointed as the governing one of the Eastern province from where he hail
Lightening has struck the Colombo 7 official residence of the head of a very important establishment, they say
These seniors knew through experience that the grand designs being advocated by the duo were not down to earth – neither reasonable nor practical!
A group from the Blue party is said to be set to team up with the Telephone party and their plan is to persuade the party chief to go into an alliance with that party.
There is a troika formed in a certain political Balavegaya that stands for unity, they say.
The debate on the VAT (Amendment) Bill had to be postponed on the day it was taken up due to lack of a quorum. In fact, some government bigwigs as well as many opposition members were absent on that day.
There are wonderful characters among the Diyawanna council members. Some of them possess the wonderful forte to hold up truth as falsehood or vice versa, they say.
Some Telephone party members are said to be disenchanted with the party these days mainly due to wrong advice being proffered to the party chief by a certain party heavyweight!
An actress turned Diyawanna member from the South who had fallen out with her party Pohottuwa in the recent past has now decided to return to the fold, they say.
The main opposition has raised a cry of protest that an unusually large entourage has accompanied Number One on his visit to the Dubai conference.
A heavyweight of the Telephone party who had been carrying on a selfcentered lonely campaign disregarding party discipline in the recent past has now decided to behave himself, they say.
Quite recently the Pohottuwa chief secretarial one met a Diyawanna member of that party from the Galle district at the council canteen.
There is a certain high-up who made an effort to secure the main chair of the Khaki department whenever it was about to fall vacant. Just before the third service extension was granted to the incumbent, this ambitious contender had approached two Bud
Following the recent ‘expulsion’ of the state purohita caught smuggling gold and some other valuable items on his return from abroad, covetous eyes are on the top post of a statutory body that comes under the purview of this state ministry. It is
A group of young government Diyawanna members had gathered at the council lobby for a chat on the day the no confidence motion against the Top team Member for Health was taken up for debate.
The removal of the Blue party secretarial one is something we had predicted earlier. Now the die is cast!
The plan is to nominate another party member for Number One office despite the Malimawa chief has already announced himself as the party candidate, in a bid to pave the way for a heated session at the politburo meeting, they say.
A high-up in the security sector who has already come down from being ‘bandu’ to ‘bindu’ due to his unsavory record has reportedly got involved in another scandal! According to the story that has com
There is a certain former purohita who is among the few others again aspiring to top team status. He is known to have an unbridled tongue and in fact, he, once, fell afoul of the law by talking out of turn. By the way, this politico hailing from a d
The country’s ambassadorial post in a European country is something in very high demand among both career diplomats and certain politicos and some of them resort to using undue influence to secure such a position. Meanwhile, some envoys already i
A section of the party advocates the fielding of the party’s architect at the forthcoming race for Number One office. However, another section of the party is said to be against it.
There is a whisper going around in the Pohottuwa party these days that it is none but a section of the Pohottuwa members with ties to the main office of the government blocking the new appointments to the Top Team, they say.
The impending move to appoint new governing ones to the provinces has become a hot topic these days. However, only four governing ones have been asked to tender their resignation. Meanwhile, sources say that the government’s initial plan was to rep
A lady who was functioning as the head of a state-run undertaking was removed from the post quite recently.
The former Number One Gota is said to be no longer interested in participating in active politics.
There is a state- run undertaking described as a ‘Bureau’ which deals with all matters relating to the country’s natural resources like minerals.
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