India, Aug. 27 -- A morning of relentless showers plunged Gurugram into chaos on Tuesday, with key stretches waterlogged, vehicles stranded, and traffic grinding to a crawl for hours.

Major stretches, including Tulip Chowk, Malibu Town, Bilaspur Chowk, Mahavir Chowk, Farrukhnagar, Narasinghpur foot overbridge, and the busy Rajiv Chowk, were waterlogged, disrupting normal movement and stranding vehicles.

Several arterial roads were reduced to single-lane movement, with vehicles crawling through flooded sections. "It took me nearly two hours to cover a 10-kilometre stretch this morning. The waterlogging was so bad near Rajiv Chowk that cars were almost stalling," said Rohit Malhotra, a resident of Sector 15.

Traffic police personnel were...