<span style="color: #222222;">Padmashree Salu Marada Thimakka met Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy with a request to spare trees facing axe due to road widening work. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Making the request in the presence of Deputy Chief Minister Dr.G. Parameshwar in Bengaluru today, she made an appeal that 287 trees standing on the four-kilometre stretch be spared. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Responding to the request made by Thimmakka, Chief Minister has said that he will consider the possibility of finding an alternative route to protect the trees. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />''The 105-year-old Salu Marada Thimakka has to her credit of nurturing thousands of trees near her village in Tumkur district.</span><br />