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India: Orchids named after leaders at Sikkim’s flower show

Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently sounded the poll bugle in the north-east states of Assam and Sikkim. But when he was not busy making campaign speeches, he managed to make time for a flower show in Gangtok and unveiled three new Orchid varieties developed in Sikkim. But the Prime Minister's choice of names for the orchids is the interesting part – while he named one Cymbidium Sardar, the other one was christened Lycaste Deendayal.

The orchids were named after iconic leaders Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Jan Sangh leader Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay.

Read more at The Asian Age