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of reply: That Volvo was not a luxury car "The photograph, which appeared under the above news item and is captioned to say 'CPC Chairman Jaliya Medagama (in front in light blue shirt) getting into a luxury Volvo after the meeting….' gives a wrong impression to the reader that the chairman while stressing the need of utilizing small vehicles for fuel efficiency is using luxury vehicle in contrary to what the chairman has been stressing at the press conference held at the Ministry of Power and Energy on April 11. "The pictured Volvo is the assigned vehicle for the chairperson of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation and which has been used by my two predecessors since it was procured in 2001. Further, when I assumed duties as the Chairman of the CPC on April 8, 2004, I decided not to use the Volvo vehicle due to the high fuel and maintenance costs and instead of it I have been using a 1300 engine capacity small vehicle bearing number HP 2115. “The Volvo was given to the CPC vehicle pool and it had been used occasionally by the Deputy Minister and other senior officials of CPC. "As my regular car was out of commission I had to borrow the above vehicle for my official work since April 4, 2005 and it so happened I had attended the press conference in the same vehicle. "Also I would like to stress that since I assumed duties as the chairman (for the last 368 days) I have used this Volvo vehicle for not more than 10 days. Therefore you will appreciate the fact that the CPC chairman does not use the above so-called luxury vehicles as his regular official vehicle and that the impression the writer intended to create amongst the reader is unfair. Further, I also would like to stress that this Volvo vehicle is not a luxury one and it is an S-40 (small vehicle). "I hope I have corrected the wrong impression created by you in the newspaper and that you would publish my explanation in the same manner that you had given publicity to the above news item in your newspaper." |
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