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In today’s featured cartoon, E.P. Unny offers his take on the Supreme Court’s order Wednesday in the Pegasus row. The apex court has ordered the constitution of a technical committee to “thoroughly investigate” the alleged Pegasus snooping controversy.
Sajith Kumar also draws on the Supreme Court’s Pegasus order, where it said the government can’t get a “free pass” every time the “spectre of ‘national security’ is raised”.
Manjul, too, has a take on the Supreme Court order in the Pegasus case, which deals with allegations of government surveillance against journalists and activists, among others, through a sophisticated Israeli spyware.
R. Prasad on Congress plans to hold a session for “booster ideas”. He suggests the party should hold a session where Rahul Gandhi is formally appointed a successor to mother Sonia as party president — as happened at the Congress’ 1929 Lahore session, where Jawaharlal Nehru took over as chief from father Motilal Nehru.
The Delhi government has announced reopening of schools for all classes from 1 November. Kirtish Bhatt makes a light-hearted remark about what the announcement means for students.