Retaliation?
Her husband may have given priority to youth through his meritorious
Mahapola scholarships, but she was in no mood to follow his footsteps at
least in relation to one youth. Or well, a youthful looking close to middle-aged
MP from her party.
The occasion:A lecture to commemorate the assassinated son of Lanka.
Trustees of the Foudation bearing his name were to light the traditional
oil lamp before the lecture.
The lady in charge ordered, the trustees will light the lamp according
to seniority of age. The not-so-young man was therefore the last.
The down-grading was seen as an affront. There was no-show by him for
the lighting of the lamp. He showed up later, just to listen to the speech
from the rear. A back-bencher indeed. Party loyalists say that this was
retaliation for a function organised the previous day by the not-so-young
man in his new pocket-borough of Kotte in honour of the dead-to which the
dead man's wife nor daughter were invited.
Hell hath no fury......., they say.
Will the jinx end?
A soft-spoken, mild-mannered gentleman takes over as the country's Solicitor
General tomorrow.
He replaces an equally soft-spoken, mild-mannered gentleman who found
no place in the state prosecutor's department — a department now riddled
with sordid tales of conduct of some of its senior offcers.
No wonder then the SG-in-waiting appears a little reluctant to use the
office room earmarked for the country's Solicitor General. Recent history
points to the fact that no SG has jumped the next hurdle and become the
AG. It indeed is a jinx. It's only a matter of time to see if the genial
SG can break the hoodoo and become the AG … they say.
Jungle Telegraph
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