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In today’s featured cartoon, Kirtish Bhat pokes fun at Shiv Sena’s vacillating stance over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.
While taking a hilarious jibe at the BJP’s ‘historically-inaccurate narrative’, Kruttika Susarala portrays PM Narendra Modi and Amit Shah compensating for their failures in governance.
Through his portrayal of a man on the scales, Sajith Kumar alludes to BJP’s ‘tactic’ of using the CAB to divert citizens’ attention from inflating onion prices.
R. Prasad alludes to a second death of Gandhi, in connection to the belief that the passage of CAB defeats his secularism before Jinnah’s two-nation theory.
Gopal Shoonya hails Greta Thunberg as an icon of empowered women, ahead of her “Person of the Year” title by Time magazine.
In his cartoon, Arindam Mukherjee brings up Smriti Irani’s speech in the Parliament in which she raised concern over Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Rape in India’ remark. Her outburst appeared like a classic tactic on behalf of PM Modi’s government to divert attention from violence in the Northeast over the CAB and India’s economic crisis.