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In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu weighs in on the BJP’s poll manifesto for Maharashtra, which not just promises one crore jobs but also a Bharat Ratna for Veer Savarkar, one of the most polarising figures in Indian history.
Sajith Kumar weighs in on the partial easing of the communication lockdown in Kashmir, which comes amid a high-stakes election season in Maharashtra and Haryana.
Satish Acharya on the imminent appointment of Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah as BCCI secretary.
Kirtish Bhatt invokes the Hindi idiom “haath dho baithna (to lose something)” to take a dig at the PMC bank crisis, the economic slowdown as well as the worrying unemployment rates in the country. The cartoon is pegged on the Global Handwashing Day, which was observed Tuesday.
Alok Nirantar offers comment on the rebellion in the Shiv Sena after the latter agreed to assume a junior partner’s role this Maharashtra assembly election.