Dipa Karmakar, who narrowly missed out on a bronze medal in the women’s vault event at the Rio Olympics, has been placed in a tricky situation over a BMW car presented to her by the Hyderabad District Badminton Association.
Dipa, along with India’s two other medallists from Rio – badminton star PV Sindhu and wrestler Sakshi Malik, and Sindhu’s coach Pullela Gopichand, received a BMW car in August for her achievement at the Rio Olympics.
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Dipa, however, strongly refuted media reports that she wants to return the BMW car to Hyderabad District Badminton Association President V Chamundeshwarnath who gifted her the BMW. The star gymnast insisted that her decision to return the premier vehicle is only due to maintenance problems that she envisaged facing in her north-eastern state of Tripura.
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“There is no showroom or service centre of BMW car in Tripura. If the car developed any technical snag during driving, how would I repair this? There are also not sufficient suitable roads in Agartala and other places of the mountainous state to ply the luxury car,” said Dipa.
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