India, Sept. 29 -- Gurugram, still popular as Gurgaon, fuels Haryana's economy. Yet when the city sinks into rainwater, chokes on toxic air, or drinks poisoned groundwater, the state retreats into silence.

The betrayal is not just civic, it is political. The city was meant to be India's calling card to the world, with 250+ India-headquartered Fortune 500 companies, 190 crore apartments, gleaming towers, and sky-scraping aspirations. The Millennium City embodied the promise of a rising India. Instead, now it is a tragic spectacle of incompetence, indifference, and incapability. Today, it has become a punchline, its monsoon-swamped streets and crumbling flyovers serving as emblems of civic collapse in globally viral visuals.

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