Gurugram: Continuous rainfall across Delhi-NCR on Monday evening brought Gurugram to a grinding halt, leaving commuters stranded for hours in unprecedented traffic snarls.

One such commuter, Shubham Gupta, described his ordeal to the press, saying it took him nearly six hours to travel just 12 kilometres from Cyber Hub to his residence in Sector 48.

“I left my office in Cyber Hub at 4:30 PM, went to pick my wife from Downtown—which is barely 1.5 km away but took me 1 hour 20 minutes—and eventually reached home at 10:15 PM,” Gupta recalled. Watch the video below:

The nightmare began soon after leaving Downtown around 5.35 pm. “Crossing just till Exit 10 on the highway took me more than three hours. Sohna Road was completely clogged, and I couldn’t even take the exit towards my house. I had to drive all the way till Sohna, take a U-turn, and get stuck again at Vatika Chowk with no movement for nearly 45 minutes,” he said.

With multiple diversions and endless standstills, Gupta finally managed to reach home through the Southern Peripheral Road. His colleague, living barely three kilometres from the office, also spent more than three hours just to reach his doorstep.

Meanwhile, Congress MP Randeep Singh Surjewala shared a video of the traffic pile-up, claiming that just two hours of rainfall had triggered a 20-km-long jam. He blamed the BJP government in Haryana for “zero preparedness” and slammed Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, saying:

“As the CM only travels by state helicopter, this is the helicopter view of Gurgaon’s highways after rain. So much for drainage, sewage, and traffic management despite crores being spent.”

Calling it the BJP’s “triple engine model of urban development” (Centre, State, and Gurugram Municipal Corporation), Surjewala accused the government of failing the citizens of “Millennium City.”

In view of the massive disruption, the Gurugram administration directed schools and corporate offices to switch to online mode on Tuesday.