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In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu brings together two flood-hit states, Assam and Maharashtra, in this cartoon. While the situation is much more grim in Assam, where one national park has been submerged and lives of lakhs have been affected, the media has put the spotlight only on Mumbai.
Sajith Kumar refers to the arrest of 26/11 mastermind and Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed by Pakistan authorities. The cartoonist highlights the hand-in-glove nature of politics in Pakistan over terrorism.
Alok Nirantar illustrates the irony behind Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray’s recent protests against non-payment of farmers’ insurance by the Maharashtra government even as his party remains in alliance with the ruling BJP.
Satwik Gade illustrates the devastating floods in Assam which has submerged over 90 per cent of Kaziranga National Park and killed 15 animals, including a one-horned rhinoceros. More animals are fleeing to higher elevations for safety.
Nala Ponnappa takes a jibe at the political situation in Karnataka, where MLAs seem to hopping from one party to another. Last week, 15 rebel MLAs camped out in a Mumbai hotel after tendering in their resignations.
Manjul takes a jibe at Pakistan after it received a ‘spanking’ at the International Court of Justice in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case. The court put a stay on Jadhav’s death sentence by Pakistan’s military court, although it rejected India’s plea for his acquittal.
Satish Acharya alludes to the trending ‘bottle-cap challenge’ depicting Karnataka chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, who might lose his chair to former CM and BJP leader B.S. Yeddyurappa after the Karnataka legislative assembly’s trust vote Thursday.