The fourth annual tulip festival by the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) was officially inaugurated on 23 February and scheduled to run until March 10. But by the time the CM invoked the tulips at the inauguration of another two-day NDMC flower festival, most petals had already fallen. From the main display along the 2-km stretch of Shanti Path to smaller clusters in Lodhi Garden, Central Park, and several roundabouts in Lutyens’ Delhi, patches of bare soil lay exposed under the sharp spring sun.

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