Farmers at Ghazipur plant flowers in response to ‘iron nails’

Farmers at Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border on Friday planted flower saplings alongside a highway stretch, saying it was their response to “iron nails” mounted within the space by the police.
Stringent safety measures like multi-layered barricading, concertina wires, had come up together with iron nails cemented on roads across the protest web site within the wake of the January 26 violence in Delhi.
Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Rakesh Tikait mentioned, “The police had fixed iron nails for farmers but we have decided to plant flowers for them.”
Rows of marigold flowers have come up close to the barricading solely in a “symbolic gesture” however a comparatively larger plantation drive was underway on a highway stretch close by, BKU media incharge Dharmendra Malik mentioned.
“A flower garden is being created on the Delhi-Dabur Tiraha road. This will cover the dirt lying on road stretches, and also emanate fragrance and improve the environment around,” Malik mentioned.

Farmers, who’re getting the flower saplings from close by nurseries, mentioned they have been on the trail of “peaceful” demonstration.
Farmers, together with these from Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan, are tenting in non permanent tarpaulin-roofed shelters, whereas many have their tractor-trailers double up as their resting place which have come up on a stretch of the Delhi-Meerut freeway.
Besides Ghazipur, hundreds of farmers are protesting at Tikri and Singh on Delhi’s outskirts since November 2020 with a requirement that the federal government repeal the brand new agri-marketing legal guidelines believing they’d harm their livelihood. The authorities, which has held no less than 11 rounds of formal talks with the representatives of the protesting farmer unions, has maintained that the legal guidelines enacted final September are pro-farmer.