A political bigwig from the South is reportedly distributing the Samurdhi relief among his own selectees, ignoring the list of the eligible beneficiaries.

A political authority hailing from the upcountry had recently offered a Sanghika Dana to Maha Sangha.

The grey-haired chief of the main Northern alliance and its legal luminary had reportedly called on the Green leader the other day.

The actor-turned Diyawanna politico is said to be a busy student these days. .

A popular singer, whose songs often conjures up charming damsels, is nowadays visiting Buddhist temples across the country to look into their urgent needs.

A Green party top team member holding a key portfolio held a celebration at a leading assembly hall in the city to mark the 40th Anniversary of an establishment coming under his purview.

There is a former top team member bereft of any high office these days. However, he continues to be a Diyawanna member occupying a front row in the council.

A young astrologer from a city suburb was summoned to a palace the other day.

Whenever the big poll is quite close at hand, the aspirants to the high office, on the advice of astrologers, begin performing various rites and offering poojas to powerful deities to win their favour.

While the construction of Stage II of a highway is underway, a separate gang of workmen are busy laying a 20-feet wide 300-meter long private road leading to the residence of a close relative of a political high authority, they say.

It is a truism that in most sectors in national life, one does not get what one deserves. This goes for politics as well.

The main character of this story is a white-collar high-up facing three separate inquiries for being responsible for causing the loss of Rs. 385 million to a State Corporation by selling a certain commodity at a reduced price.

A certain uniformed high-up of the State lodge is often seen strolling along a Nelum Mawatha these days, they say.

The appointment of political favorites as envoys to our diplomatic missions abroad came under severe flak during the previous regime.

A Poson dansala is held at Pulatisipura every year under the patronage of Number One. The dansala had been held on a grand scale this year too.

A rumour was doing the rounds ever since the April 21 carnage that yet another five-star hotel in the city was to be attacked and it did not come to pass due to an eleventh hour change in the original plan.

Two out of the group of purohitas who recently resigned on a collective decision had been impatient about getting back their portfolios, they say.

A Poson dansala is held at Pulatisipura every year under the patronage of Number One. The dansala had been held on a grand scale this year too.

A picture showing the lady-envoy here from the most powerful nation in the world eating Kottu-roti at a well-known Muslim hotel at Kollupitiya went viral when someone had posted it on the Facebook.

About 10 orderlies - once referred to as peons – attached to a main government office in the city recently found to their shock and dismay that they had been suddenly transferred out to various other places.

This worthy posing as a person politically victimized managed to secure a high office in the education sector.

This high-up of a state lodge who is said to be facing a death threat from a fair complexioned mate sentenced to a life term has been assigned a special security detail on the orders of a political high authority.

This person who was appointed to a high office thanks to political influence, has pressed the heads of institutions coming under his supervision to tender their resignations forthwith.

There was much speculation in political circles and the public domain in the recent past about the circumstances that led those in the highest echelons to bar the currently sidelined khaki chief from attending security council meetings.

Bulla who had to step down from the governing post had made an earnest request to Number One; that he be re-nominated as a national list member.

Green party’s Madduma of Uva already handling public administration and two other subjects at top team level had been asking for some time that he be given a subject which would enable him to take a direct hand in the country’s development. Howev

A prominent Diyawanna politico who is also a highly respected member of the black-coated gentry had received a phone call from a political authority from the highest echelons the other day.

Seven to eight portfolios at top team level and at lesser levels have fallen vacant following the resignation of Muslim Diyawanna politicos en bloc.

A Group of Blue party Diyawanna members handed a letter to Number One the other day requesting him to come forward to contest the big poll round the corner. Almost all members in the group had signed this letter. But two or three members had avoided

This provincial bigwig has reportedly appointed a comely damsel as his receptionist despite her well-known close ties to an opposition political party. She had earlier been working as a library assistant.