India, Dec. 1 -- A routine commute in Karnataka's Bengaluru once again turned into a marathon crawl, this time derailing the plans of Samajwadi Party MP Rajeev Rai. The parliamentarian from Ghosi, Uttar Pradesh, on Sunday found himself stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic for hours on his way to the airport, just ahead of his scheduled flight to Delhi for the Winter Session of Parliament.

Rai took to social media platform X, formerly Twitter, to vent out his anger, and told chief minister Siddaramaiah that he has the "worst traffic management and the most useless traffic police.

Rai said he grew increasingly anxious as the clock ticked toward departure time and tried calling Bengaluru's traffic control numbers in an attempt to seek help. H...