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In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu draws on the two recent cases of the Lakhimpur Kheri violence and the Mumbai cruise drugs case, which involves Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan. He suggests the latter is a ‘distraction’ to take people’s attention away from the murder accusation against Union Minister of State Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra.
Alok Nirantar invokes the image of Kashmir as ‘heaven on earth’ to comment on the recent spate of killings of Pandit and Sikh minorities in the Valley.
Sajith Kumar stages a fictional conversation between PM Narendra Modi and UP CM Yogi Adityanath, who have both been silent on the Lakhimpur Kheri incident.
Nala Ponappa pokes fun at the recent comments by the judiciary on the right to protest and farmers blocking highways.
E.P. Unny suggests that the Supreme Court will be closely watching over the UP elections in light of the violence unleashed by the deaths in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence.