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In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu refers to Emperor Ashoka’s great remorse over the destruction caused by the war of Kalinga and his symbol the ‘Chakra’ or wheel, to alludes to the wheels of the cars that allegedly ran over farmers during a protest in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh.
Alok Nirantar also refers to the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, comparing PM Narendra Modi, UP CM Yogi Adityanath and Home Minister Amit Shah to the proverbial ‘Gandhi’s 3 monkeys’. There has been no public acknowledgement from these leaders yet on the loss of eight lives in the violence.
Manjul illustrates Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi trying to lecture UP CM Yogi Adityanath on key values of law and democracy, which the cartoonist opines, are ‘imprisoned’ in the state.
P. Mahamud also alludes to the violence in Lakhimpur Kheri, showing officialdom trying to bulldoze the farmers’ protest.
R. Prasad advises those investigating the Lakhimpur Kheri violence to use a charge different to murder.
E.P Unny draws a parallel between Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar’s controversial ‘tit-for-tat action’ against farmers statement, and the Lakhimpur Kheri incident.