Ghazipur: Flower Plants In Response To The Nail Barricades; A Sign Of Peaceful Protest

Farmers protesting at Ghazipur have planted flower saplings as sign of peaceful demonstration.

New Delhi: At Ghazipur border, farmers who protesting the against the farm laws, planted flower sapling in response to the nails which have been used to barricade them by the police. After the January 26th violent, stringent security measures like multi-layered barricading, concertina wires, has come up along with iron nails cemented on roads around the protest site in Delhi. 

According to a PTI report, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait said, “The police had fixed iron nails for farmers but we have decided to plant flowers for them.” But BKU media incharge Dharmendra Malik explained that the rows of marigold flowers have come up near the barricading only in a “symbolic gesture” but a relatively bigger plantation drive was underway on a road stretch nearby. The PTI report quoted him, as saying, “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”.

The farmers are getting the flower saplings from nearby nurseries as a sign of "peaceful" demonstration.

Farmers from different parts of North India - Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Punjab - are camping at Ghazipur, Tikri and Singhu borders in protest. They are living under temporary tarpaulin-roofed shelters, while many have their tractor-trailers double up as their resting place on the stretch of the Delhi-Meerut highway. They have been protetsing since November 2020, against the farm laws which the central government is trying to impose. The farmers want to government to repeal these laws but even after eleven round the decision is in a deadlock.