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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar illustrates how BJP as well as Congress chief ministers have been swept away by a wave of decisions by their respective party high commands. The list includes BJP’s Vijay Rupani, B.S. Yediyurappa, Trivendra Singh Rawat and Tirath Singh Rawat, and now Congress’ Captain Amarinder Singh.
Kirtish Bhatt takes a dig at TV news channels’ frenzied coverage of the leadership change in Punjab, which led to the ‘surprise‘ appointment of Charanjit Singh Channi as the CM. In the cartoon, a supporter is rushing to greet a generic Sikh leader, congratulating him for having been one of the speculated names for about half an hour.
Sajith Kumar jokes that the Congress’ 2017 electoral promise of change has been delivered in the form of Captain Amarinder Singh’s removal from the CM’s chair.
E.P. Unny takes a swipe at political leadership across states, suggesting that farmers’ protests against the Narendra Modi government’s new laws on agriculture, which have lasted over a year, look more stable than governance.
R. Prasad depicts a robbery at the Bad Bank proposed to be set up by the Modi government to alleviate the problem of bad loans.