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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar alludes to the violence in Lakhimpur Kheri, in which Union MoS Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra is accused of running over protesting farmers in his car, and compares it to running over democracy.
Satish Acharya also gives his take on the bloodshed in Lakhimpur Kheri, showing a long line of corpses in the year-long farmers-versus-government tussle over the controversial farm laws.
Manjul mocks Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “India is the mother of all democracies” remark to the United Nations General Assembly last month by pointing to some of the recent incidents and decisions in BJP-ruled states.
R. Prasad takes a dig at the Congress, which has appointed Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel as a senior observer for the upcoming UP assembly elections.
E.P. Unny advises a snoozing Air India mascot ‘Maharaja’ to start working, now that it has returned ‘home’ to the Tata stable.