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In today’s featured cartoon, Acharya takes a potshot at BJP MLA Akash Vijayvargiya, son of senior BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya, who has been sent to jail for thrashing a government official with a cricket bat. The cartoonist alludes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent tweet wishing cricketer Shikhar Dhawan who injured himself in the World Cup.
Sandeep Adhwaryu takes a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha speech where he fervently hit out at the Congress, but barely addressed the larger issues of healthcare and the economic crisis.
Kirtish Bhatt pokes fun at Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s month-long resignation saga and the party’s diminishing eminence in Indian politics.
Manjul weighs in on West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s ‘return cut money’ drive, after a TMC leader in Chatra village of Birbhum district gave back Rs 2.25 lakh to villagers, which was commissioned by party workers before the Lok Sabha elections.
R. Prasad takes a jibe at the new BJP slogan ‘Sab ka Saath, Sab ka Vikas, Sab ka Vishwas’ over the death of Tabrez Ansari, a 24-year-old Muslim man who was lynched to death in Jharkhand.
With Viral Acharya stepping down from the deputy governor’s post of the RBI, Mahamud caricatures the RBI emblem, punning on the autonomous nature of the institution.