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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar alludes to reports hinting that Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi has given MP Shashi Tharoor the green signal to file his nomination for the upcoming Congress presidential polls. The illustration also refers to Sitaram Kesri, who preceded Sonia Gandhi as Congress president and was ousted from the post before the completion of his term to make way for her candidature.
R. Prasad gives his take on raids by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in connection with the Islamic outfit Popular Front of India (PFI), while referring to allegations against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of misusing central agencies to ‘split’ opposition parties by allegedly causing defections.
Sandeep Adhwaryu takes a dig at Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis — who orchestrated the fall of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government earlier this year — for having lost a multi-crore investment opportunity in the form of a Vedanta-Foxconn semiconductor manufacturing plant to neighbouring Gujarat.
Sajith Kumar comments on the construction of a temple dedicated to Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath in Ayodhya district where special prayers are offered twice everyday before a life-size statue of the chief minister.
E.P. Unny draws on a proposal by the Union Ministry of Power envisaging a centralised model that would make power distribution companies (discoms) ‘entirely dependent’ on the central government and how it has led to a tussle between the states and the Centre.