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Sandeep Adhwaryu draws on the AAP wresting control of the unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) from the BJP, while referring to Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia’s promise that the party would rid the capital of ‘mounds of garbage’ if voted to power in the MCD.
R. Prasad, alludes to how persecution on the lines of linguistic differences was among the reasons cited by Russia to justify its invasion of Ukraine, while commenting on the latest flare up in the six decade-old Karnataka-Maharashtra border dispute.
Kirtish Bhatt gives his take on Law minister Kiren Rijiju expressing concern about the number of pending cases in Indian courts “inching towards five crores”. In the illustration, a woman recites her father’s will as thus: “Father said, stay together, don’t fight. There are five crore cases pending in the courts.”
Nala Ponnappa highlights the plight of voters in the backdrop of the just-concluded Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh assembly polls and MCD elections.