LUCKNOW, Nov. 18 -- Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday said that after the G-20 Summit (held in 2023), people took flowerpots from around the event venue using Mercedes cars in Lucknow. Catching them would have caused a huge embarrassment, so instead, they were shown CCTV footage of the theft, he said, while speaking at the BBD University convocation. "I saw CCTV footage wherein people are arriving in Mercedes and taking away flower pots kept on the road to decorate the city for the G-20 summit. Imagine the price of a Mercedes car and the cost of a flower pot. The people were seen putting them in the car. If they were caught, it would give the city a bad name. And if we don't take action, then decorations done for the purpose will get lost," he said. "We decided to call them and show the CCTV footage. We told them that we lost some of the flower pots. We showed them the footage and let them go," he said, taking a dig at the civic sense of the people who did not hesitate to litter the clean stretches of roads by throwing wrappers after consuming edible items....