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In today’s featured cartoon, Sajith Kumar takes a dig at statements made by several Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, including Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, about how students should now focus on their education, after the Karnataka High Court’s judgment in the hijab row. The court Tuesday ruled that the hijab was not an essential practice in Islam, and upheld an Udupi pre-university college’s decision, and a supporting state government order, to ban the headscarf in classrooms. The controversy had spiralled over the past few months — just as five states went to the polls.
E.P. Unny encourages Muslim girl students to continue their education after the hijab judgment. Several students, including the petitioners in the case, have already announced that they won’t go to college if they can’t wear the hijab, and will continue their legal fight.
Manjul also comments on the hijab judgment, which placed much emphasis on the importance of school uniforms and how they must be ‘uniform’ — with no room for provisions such as matching headscarves for Muslim girls.
Sandeep Adhwaryu comments on the massive amount of debt that Bhagwant Mann must deal with after taking oath as chief minister of Punjab Wednesday. There is also expected to be the added burden of the expensive promises that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) made in its successful election campaign.
Kirtish Bhatt takes a swipe at the Indian news channel ecosystem, hinting that even the channels know what they broadcast cannot be considered ‘news’. The anchors in the cartoon fear that someone might come to disrupt its telecast and protest against what they are propounding, alluding to an anti-war message on the Russian news.