Lucknow, April 5 -- Just a few days back, corporators cutting across party lines were unanimous in demanding a hike in annual grant to them for development works in their respective wards. However, this is not the only cause uniting them, as they all are also on the same page when it comes to reading habits.

Unbelievable it may sound, but it is true that in the last five years, no corporator, either from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) or from the opposition -- Samajwadi Party (SP), Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) -- has visited the iconic decades-old library located in the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (headquarters) housing 5500 books. The data from the last five years suggests that no corporator has ever got a book issu...