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In today’s featured cartoon, Manjul caricatures BSP chief Mayawati’s latest move to induct brother Anand Kumar and nephew Akash Kumar as the party’s vice-president and national coordinator, respectively. The cartoonist pokes fun at the BSP supremo for deserting SP chief Akhilesh Yadav after their failed ‘gathbandhan‘ in the Lok Sabha elections.
After Mayawati announces the end of her party’s alliance with SP, Gopal Shunya illustrates the result of BSP’s tie-up with Akhilesh Yadav for Lok Sabha elections.
Sajith Kumar alludes to the ‘Jai Sri Ram’ sloganeering in the Parliament after the lynching of a 24-year-old Muslim man in Jharkhand, who was forced to chant ‘Jai Sri Ram’ and ‘Jai Hanuman’.
Satish Acharya comments on the recurring incidents of mob violence and lynching in the country after the return of the Modi government. The cartoonist takes a jibe at the government for not honouring its slogan ‘Sab ka Saath, Sab ka Vikas, Sab ka Vishwas’.
Alok Nirantar highlights the resignation of RBI deputy director Viral Acharya even as the central bank battles the ‘monster’ of ‘economic crisis’.
Mir Suhail weighs in on India’s ongoing water crisis, with drought-like conditions in many parts of the country.