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In today’s featured cartoon, Kirtish Bhatt opines on the Indian rupee falling to a record low of Rs 80.58 against the US dollar. In the illustration, a reporter asks a politician why the rupee is falling, to which the latter responds: “Have you studied physics? Do you understand the force of gravity?”
Satish Acharya alludes to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat’s hour-long meeting with Muslim intellectuals, including All India Imam Organisation chief Umer Ahmed Ilyasi, at a mosque in New Delhi Thursday.
Alok Nirantar gives his take on reports suggesting that Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot may be pitted against each other in the contest for the post of party president in the backdrop of Sonia Gandhi’s statement that she will remain “neutral”.
Sajith Kumar draws on Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai calling Congress’s ‘PayCM’ campaign to highlight allegations of corruption against the BJP government in the state a “conspiracy to tarnish the image of Karnataka”.
Vishnu Madhav draws on the strike in Kerala called by the Popular Front of India (PFI), which is protesting the arrests of over 100 its leaders by probe agencies. In the illustration, Kerala BJP chief K. Surendran can be seen telling PFI leaders, “Use all your force to dig”, while Union Home Minister Amit Shah can be seen saying: “We will reap what you sow.”