Haryana Assembly Elections 2024: Why Gurugram crawls, voters ask parties as campaigning intensifies

Intense waterlogging, damaged roads and serpentine traffic jams are the daily woes faced by the locals of Gurugram and they are now demanding assurance from candidates ahead of Haryana Assembly Elections 2024.

The campaign for upcoming Assembly polls in Haryana has seen parties making varied promises but voters in Gurugram have a common grievance — why does the traffic in the millennium city crawl? Pitched as the “Singapore of India”, the most elite region of NCR, Gurugram is one of Asia’s largest IT and corporate hubs. The city might be offering employment to people from across the country who now call it home, but when it comes to civic amenities, life is getting increasingly difficult.

Intense waterlogging, damaged roads and serpentine traffic jams are the everyday woes faced by the people and they are now demanding assurance from candidates that their grievances will finally be addressed.

Posters of “No road, no vote”, “Abki bar, no guddha sarkar”, “Stuck in traffic, can’t vote”, and “Why Gurgaon crawls” are flashed by voters when the candidates go out in the city to seek votes.

“The city is in a mess but the traffic situation is worse. The only solution left is to never step out of the house. Even a few kilometres of distance takes over an hour and travelling to Delhi is like taking a flight to Dubai or Singapore,” Sumegh Jaiswal, a resident of a multi-storey complex in Sector 82, told PTI.

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Mr. Jaiswal’s fellow residents protested with posters when candidates of both the BJP and the Congress visited the area this week.

“We are asking all candidates what is their plan to address the traffic issue. We don’t need promises, we need a plan and then only we will vote,” he said.