New Delhi, Dec. 26 -- On the evening of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, on December 25, several residents were caught stealing flower pots used to decorate the city roads for the inauguration of Rashtra Prerna Sthal honouring Atal Bihari Vajpayee's 101st birth anniversary.

In a video now going viral on social media, Lucknow residents were captured openly stealing marigold-filled flower pots from the roadside. However, the more surprising fact was that these weren't poor and homeless people, but rather seemed to belong to good families, and used scooters to loot the plants.

Notably, such post-event thefts are not uncommon; municipal bodies often remove decorations as soon as the event wraps up to curb loss...