Video of an auto-rickshaw driver dancing on a water-logged road in Gujarat is shared as from Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
July 18, 2022
A video is being widely shared on social media claiming it as the visuals of an auto rickshaw driver dancing on a water-logged street in Sri Ganganagar district of Rajasthan. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: Video of an auto rickshaw driver dancing on a water-clogged street in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan.
Fact: The video shows a recent incident that took place in Bharuch, Gujarat. Highlighting the problems of water-logging roads during rains, Naresh Sondarva, a taxi and auto rickshaw driver in Gujarat, danced on a water-logged road in Bharuch. This video has nothing to do with the Sri Ganganagar district in Rajasthan. Hence, the claim made in the post is MISLEADING.
On reverse image search of the screenshots in the video, a video with similar visuals was found on the official Facebook page of ‘Sandesh’ news website. This media channel described it as a funny video of an auto rickshaw driver dancing on a water-logged street in Bharuch, Gujarat.
When we searched further using these keywords, we found a few more details of this video in an article published by the ‘Trishul News’ website on 16 July 2022. ‘Trishul News’ reported it as the visuals of a Gujarati auto rickshaw driver dancing on a flooded street in Bharuch. The man dancing in the video is Naresh Sondarva, a taxi and auto rickshaw driver in Gujarat. When his rickshaw got stuck in a water-logged street in Bharuch, Naresh got down from his rickshaw and danced on the flooded road. In the view of uniquely expressing the problems of water-logging streets during rains, Naresh danced like this.
The ‘Divya Bhaskar’ news channel published an article confirming that the video is from Bharuch district in Gujarat. On 15 July 2022, Naresh Sondarva posted a video on his Facebook page and thanked the people of Bharuch district and other parts of the country for their amazing response to his video.
Also, in the post we could see the ‘SHAH Publicity’ billboard placed on a pole behind road. This advertising company place their hoardings only in Surat and other prime locations in Gujarat. From all these pieces of evidence, it can be concluded that the video shared in the post was shot on a water-logged road in Gujarat’s Bharuch district.
To sum it up, this video of an auto rickshaw driver dancing on a water-logged road is from Gujarat, not from Sri Ganganagar district in Rajasthan.