India, Sept. 4 -- LUCKNOW Broken roads, waterlogging, damaged sewer lines, missing streetlights and poor waste collection dominated the House proceedings at Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) headquarters on Thursday. The session, the first since Lucknow secured third rank among the cleanest cities in the country in the million-plus population category in Swachh Shahar Awards in July, saw corporators from BJP, Congress and Samajwadi Party united in exposing civic lapses, accusing officials and the private agency contracted for waste management of negligence.

BJP corporator Pramod Singh Rajan alleged that the private agency, responsible for door-to-door garbage collection in five zones, was flouting contract terms. "The agency is neither...