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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar alludes to Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) wresting control of the unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the recently-concluded MCD elections.
Sandeep Adhwaryu, referring to the central government’s thrust on ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ (the world is one family), depicts the flashpoint between the two neighbouring BJP-ruled states triggered by pro-Kannada groups targeting buses with Maharashtra number plates in Karnataka’s Belagavi.
Satish Acharya pokes fun at the man who, as can be seen in a viral video of the incident, got stuck between the legs of an elephant statue at a temple in Gujarat.
Kirtish Bhatt comments on exit polls predicting a landslide for the BJP in Gujarat, a neck-and-neck contest between the Congress and BJP in Himachal Pradesh and a victory for the AAP in Delhi MCD polls. In the illustration, an astrologer sitting next to a pollster is thinking to himself: “Competition, wherever you see.”
E.P. Unny gives his take on Gujarat Police arresting Trinamool Congress’s spokesperson Saket Gokhale from Rajasthan on charges of “rumour mongering” and triggering “false alarm” among public with his tweets on the Morbi bridge collapse.