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Gymnast Dipa Karmarkar seeks cash instead of BMW citing maintenance issues in Tripura

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Agartala: Gymnast Dipa Karmakar, who narrowly missed out on a bronze medal in the women’s vault event at the Rio Olympics is in dilemma 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.

However, it is now said that Dipa wants to return the BMW to Hyderabad District Badminton Association President V Chamundeshwarnath owing to maintenance problems of the car in her north-eastern state of Tripura.

“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,” Dipa said. She said that her coach Bisheshwar Nandi discussed the issue with V Chamundeshwarnath and the latter has agreed to deposit money equal to a BMW to her account. “We would be happy whatever amount they give instead of the BMW car,” she added.

In August, while Sindhu and Gopi received BMW 320 Ds that cost around Rs. 40 lakh each, Sakshi and Dipa received compact cross-over BMW X1s priced at around Rs. 30 lakh each. Cricket legend and India’s goodwill ambassador at the Rio Olympics, Sachin Tendulkar, handed over the keys of the cars, made by German automaker BMW Group.

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