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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar, referring to calls for the boycott of Bollywood movies, comments on actor Akshay Kumar’s meeting with UP CM Yogi Adityanath during which they discussed the proposal for the development of a film city in the state.
Kirtish Bhatt pokes fun at Karnataka BJP chief Nalin Kumar Kateel for his remarks at a meeting where he told party workers not to engage voters on civic issues like drainage or road conditions, and instead convince them that a BJP government in the state is their best bet at tackling ‘love jihad’. In the illustration, a man advices Kateel, “It is not right to say such things from an open stage. Why tell other parties our planning and strategy?”
Satish Acharya depicts his criticism of TV media coverage of the court-ordered demolition drive in Uttarakhand’s Haldwani that could render as many as 4,000 families homeless.
Sorit Gupto draws on criticism of the annual Indian Science Congress for giving a platform to ‘pseudoscience‘ and entertaining ‘lack of serious discussion’ over the past few years.
Sajith Kumar, alluding to the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra entering Uttar Pradesh, illustrates the underlying contradiction in the stand of senior Congress leaders who assert that the foot march is not aimed at shoring up its electoral fortunes.