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Noida, Feb 05: Farmers at Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border on Friday planted flower saplings along a road stretch, saying it was their response to “iron nails” fixed in the area by the police.
Stringent security measures like multi-layered barricading, concertina wires, had come up along with iron nails cemented on roads around the protest site in the wake of the January 26 violence in Delhi.
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.”
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…
