Ludhiana, Jan. 22 -- Opposition councillors on Wednesday skipped a lunch and get-together hosted by mayor Inderjit Kaur to mark the first anniversary of General House of the municipal corporation to protest what they called biased functioning and the lack of major development works in the city over the past year.

Councillors from the Congress said their decision to stay away from the event was a mark of protest against what they described as selective approval of works and discrimination against Opposition-ruled wards. They claimed that because of this alleged bias, development in several parts of the city had come to a standstill, leaving residents to suffer.

Congress councillor Sham Sunder Malhotra said that despite a year having pass...