The Shiv Sena, which has been ruling the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for over two decades, was trolled on social media as the city came to a standstill after incessant rains, which claimed 19 lives in a wall collapse here Tuesday.
As Mumbai almost came to a halt after overnight rains, netizens and Mumbaikars took a dig at the Shiv Sena for the plight of their beloved city.
A meme was doing rounds on social media messaging platform WhatsApp where a picture of Venice in Italy was juxtaposed with a waterlogged street in Parel in Central Mumbai.
Another meme featured the frame from Hindi film "Great Gambler" where Amitabh Bachchan and Zeenat Aman are in a gondola (a light flat-bottomed boat used on Venetian canals) and he asks the gondolier (who powers the boats by hand, using long oars to row the boats along the canals): "Bhaiya Goregoan lena" (take me to Goregoan, a Mumbai suburb).
A social media user, Meme Dev, took to Twitter to taunt the Sena by posting a picture of Shahrukh Khan in the film "Swades" where he is travelling in a boat and tagged it saying, "Mumbai people going office #MumbaiRainlive".
Another viral picture showed a tiger (Shiv Sena's symbol) hitching a ride in a boat in a water-logged street.
A sarcastic tweet came from a netizen who took a jibe at the Sena saying, "Instead of taking the MPs to Ayodhya, if corporaters were taken in and around, then today the city would not have become 'Tumbai' (flooded)."
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