Vasantotsav at Raj Bhawan has attracted large number of visitors this year. Most of the visitors especially those carrying their smart phones could not resist from trying to capture every facet of the floral exihibition.
Participants, who had displayed their cut flowers in the exihibition were seen distributing a piece of flowers among the flower lovers and seeing this large number of people who were roaming around or busy in other stalls rushed to the cut-flower stalls.
Talking to The Pioneer, a visitor Anjali said that she had come to Vasantotsav to see spring festival and that her excitement doubled when she got ample opportunity to click her photographs in the vicinity of Raj Bhawan.
Her excitement was affected when she saw the large number of visitors, who were forced to stand in queue to get their entry after thorough frisking. The security personnel who were posted at the entrance seemed to be lacking training in dealing with crowds considering the manner in which they resorted to frisking visitors for security purpose in this era of technological advancements. Instead of frisking everyone, by installing more than one metal detector they could not have prevented formation of such long queue at the entrance. By doing this they could attracted more visitors to the event.
This year’s visitors got a chance to purchase the flowerers and ornamental plants of their choice from the various stalls also set up as part of the floral exhibition cum competition.
The horticulture department had set up a stall where fruit juice and squash were being sold so visitors who got a chance to quench their thirst with the juice of their choice. Besides, the orgnisers had also made arrangement for water points and chairs for the visitors who could be seen reclining on the chair sipping water.
later, the visitors who had purchased potted flowering plants along with squash and ornamental plants had to face inconvenience as they had to walk for a long because of traffic jam. Such was the number of visitors to Vasantotsav that vehicles of those arriving could be seen parked up to the Vijay Colony, towards the Bijapur guest house and around the Chief Minister residence.