India, March 27 -- Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Raghav Chadha has highlighted in the Rajya Sabha the growing traffic crisis in India's major cities, claiming that commuters spend 100 to 168 hours every year stuck in traffic, and called for a national-level solution to ease urban congestion.

In a post on X on Friday, Chadha shared a video of his speech from earlier this week, and said cities like Bengaluru, Pune, Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi and Chennai have effectively turned into "giant parking lots," where people spend hours sitting in traffic rather than actually commuting.

"On average a commuter spends 100 to 168 hours a year stuck in traffic. Not commuting. Just sitting," he wrote on X. The MP stressed that the impact goes beyond inconvenien...