LUCKNOW, Dec. 5 -- In a high-intensity enforcement drive, Lucknow mayor Sushma Kharkwal led on-ground action against alleged illegal migrants from Bangladesh and Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar in the state capital's Gudamba area on Thursday.

The action came even as the police have already been carrying out an ongoing verification campaign in slum settlements of the city.

Thursday's drive was carried out in Phool Bagh colony near the Gudamba police station where around 70 families of slum-dwellers were provided an open plot for informal settlements allegedly by a local corporator Pankaj Yadav. A similar drive was carried out under the Ghazipur police station limits.

While the civic team moved through the slum clusters, several residents ...