HT Digital
GUWAHATI, March 22: A man hailing from Assam has gone viral on social media for buying a two-wheeler scooter for himself. Md Saidul Hoque, who is a resident of the Sipajhar area in the Darrang district and runs a small shop in Guwahati, purchased a scooter with a bunch of coins he saved over the years.
According to reports, Md Saidul Hoque stated, “I run a small shop in the Boragaon area, and it was my dream to buy a scooter. I started to collect coins about 5-6 years ago. Finally, I have fulfilled my dream. I am really happy now”.
“When my executive told me that a customer has come to our showroom to buy a scooter with coins worth around Rs 90,000, I was delighted, because I had seen such news on TV. I wish him that, he would buy a four-wheeler in the future,” said the owner of the two-wheeler showroom.
Earlier in the previous year, a man from Uttarakhand’s Rudrapur paid Rs 50,000 to buy a TVS Jupiter scooter from a local TVS dealer.
While in a 29-year-old V Boopathi from Tamil Nadu also paid Rs 2.6 lakh in a bundle of 1 rupee coins for a Bajaj Dominar 400. About 10 hours were needed to count the payment made in coins by the man.