An old video of an Indian mayor and his buddies falling under a creek as their boat fell over resurfaced in Might 2024 in social networks posts that incorrectly declared it revealed Murtaza Wahab Siddiqui, the mayor of Karachi in Pakistan. The clip is from 2016 and reveals Surendra Furtado, then-mayor of the western Indian city of Panaji, with regional reporters and authorities who took a tumble when their weed-cleaning boat capsized.
“Scenes from the sinking of the Titanic seen throughout a patrol of Gujjar Nala by Murtaza Wahab and KMC (Karachi Metropolitan Corporation) authorities,” checked out an Urdu-language Facebook post that shared the video on Might 2.
The Gujjar Nala is a natural drain in Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city which counts Murtaza Wahab Siddiqui as mayor and is the capital of southern Sindh province.
The Pakistan Individuals’s Celebration (PPP), which rules the province, has actually supervised a job because 2007 to tidy up the waterway obstructed by waste and lined with advancements (archived link).
The operation has actually long been a controversial concern amongst homeowners following the demolition of homes.
The Facebook post jokingly called the sinking vessel seen in the video “the Bhutto Titanic”, describing Pakistan’s ex-leader and PPP creator Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
Karachi, a seaside metropolitan area of more than 20 million individuals, is collapsing under the weight of rotting facilities, sustaining discontent and an absence of rely on the federal and provincial federal governments.
The monsoon season is felt hardest in the city, where blocked drains pipes and culverts triggers prevalent flooding.
The video was shared in comparable posts on Facebook, social networks platform X and YouTube which incorrectly declared it revealed Karachi’s mayor falling under the Gujjar Nala.
Some social networks users appeared to think that incorrect claim.
“This is magnificent justice. He who took Karachi’s required and was set up as mayor got a taste of Karachi’s sewage and decline firsthand,” one commented.
“That’s where they belong,” another composed.
Nevertheless, the video in truth reveals the mayor of the Indian city of Panaji.
Photo-op failed
A reverse image search of keyframes on Google discovered a Reddit post from 2016 entitled: “Panaji Mayor Surendra Furtado falls under sewage-laced water after boat capsizes – [P]R stunt fails” (archived link).
Keyword searches discovered a video of the event published on India Today’s YouTube channel on June 27, 2016 (archived link).
The video is entitled: “Photo-Op Of Panaji Mayor Ends Up In Sewage Caught On Electronic camera” (archived link).
Below is a screenshot contrast of video shared on social networks (left) and published on YouTube by India Today (right).
The video reveals Panaji’s then-mayor Surendra Furtado capsizing on a weeding device that he was revealing to regional media on the St Inez Creek.
Regional media commonly reported on the incident, called a “significant shame” for the mayor (archived link).
Furtado verified to AFP for a comparable truth examine that he was the male in the video.
“I had actually chosen an assessment of a newly-introduced weeding device,” he informed AFP in 2018.
“The vessel lost its balance and we took a tumble. No one was hurt.”
Wahab Siddiqui clarified in an X post on April 30 that he was not in the video (archived link).
