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In today’s featured cartoon, Manjul takes a dig at developments over the past 7 1/2 years under the Narendra Modi government as he comments on the decision to install a “grand statue” of Subhas Chandra Bose at India Gate in Delhi. A temporary hologram statue was unveiled on 23 January — the freedom fighter’s 125th birth anniversary — and is to be in place until the final granite work is completed.
Satish Acharya alludes to PM Modi’s promises of prosperity in the light of another symbolic move, in which the iconic Amar Jawan Jyoti flame at India Gate — established in 1972 to commemorate soldiers killed during the India-Pakistan war the previous year — was taken and merged with the eternal flame at the National War Memorial, 400 metres away.
Sajith Kumar pokes fun at the Congress in Goa, which had its candidates make a pledge of loyalty before God that they would not defect to other parties if elected in the upcoming state assembly polls.
R. Prasad also comments on the Modi government’s decision to install a statue of Subhas Chandra Bose, who resigned as Congress president in 1939 after facing opposition from Mahatma Gandhi.
E.P. Unny draws on the Centre’s decision to drop the Christian hymn ‘Abide with Me’ from the Beating Retreat ceremony this year.