The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately.
In today’s featured cartoon, Kirtish Bhatt takes a dig at Indian ministers who swear upon the Constitution while taking ministerial oaths but rarely abide by it.
In the illustration, a minister reads the newspaper on India’s Constitution Day (26 November) and remarks that the word sounds vaguely familiar, later realising that it is, in fact, what he swore allegiance to.
Sandeep Adhwaryu comments on a speech delivered by General Qamar Javed Bajwa, retired Army Chief of Pakistan, in which he claimed that the loss of Pakistan in the 1971 India-Pakistan war was a “political failure and not a military failure”. He further claimed that the number of fighting Pakistani soldiers was not 92,000, as had been reported, but only 34,000.
Cartoonist Manjul illustrates the swift appointment of Election Commission chief Arun Goel by the central government, which was questioned by the SC after the process was completed within 24 hours and without ‘any deliberation’.
Satish Acharya has a sharp take on Home Minister Amit Shah’s comment during a campaign rally in poll-bound Gujarat, where he claimed that those who were responsible for the communal riots in Gujarat 2002 had been taught a lesson and that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had “brought peace to the land”.
Irshad Kaptan alludes to controversial comments made last week by Baba Ramdev which have landed the yoga guru in soup. During a free yoga training programme for women, he had said, “Women look good in saris, they look great in salwar suits and, in my view, they look good even if they don’t wear anything.”