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Avurudu on wheels for MPs
By Shelani Perera
Whatever the struggle of the common people, their representatives are having a happy new year with high-powered semi luxury vehicles coming their way.
The brand new vehicles imported under an Indian credit line and costing about Rs. 1.7 million duty free have already been handed over to 90 MPs and more than hundred others are to pick them up before the end of the month.

Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe, Ministers Karu Jayasuriya, Mahinda Samarasinghe, Arumugan Thondaman and nine JVP parliamentarians form a minority group who have said they do not want new vehicles.

While a vast majority of MPs have opted for Tata Safaris, Scorpios or Boleros, Ministers K. N. Choksy and Milinda Moragoda have settled for the less expensive Marutis.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister A. H. M. Azwer told The Sunday Times that the vehicles were not luxury types but more of utility value.

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