When a party functionary most voters wouldn't recognise speaks ill of activists most voters have never met, the ensuing fuss might appear, to some of those voters, to be obscure.

Each party functionary represented a local constituency, and most of the constituencies were ethnically distinct.

A contributing factor to the tension preceding the riots were incendiary tweets by local governing party functionaries.

Many of them were set up on the initiative of eager local party functionaries, and only existed for a few weeks or months.

Is it because key ministers and party functionaries are the same tired old faces?