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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar refers to the exclusion of Union minister Nitin Gadkari from the parliamentary board of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) — the party’s apex decision-making body — less than a month after he said at an event in Nagpur that he sometimes thought of “leaving politics”.
Sajith Kumar, referring to a comment made by the Supreme Court in June this year, comments on how 11 convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gang-rape and murder case were feted upon their release from jail. The court, while rejecting a plea by the wife of slain Congress leader Ehsan Jafri challenging the exoneration of PM Narendra Modi in a 2002 Gujarat riots case, had observed that the plea was filed “to keep the pot boiling”.
Nala Ponnappa too, remarks on the release of 11 men convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Bilkis Bano case.
E.P. Unny has a witty take on the suspension of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) by FIFA on the grounds of “third party interference” in the functioning of the body that governs football in India.
Kirtish Bhatt alludes to the decision by various milk marketing companies to hike the prices of milk. In the illustration, a TV news anchor can be seen asking cows: “The nation wants to know from you, why are milk prices rising?”
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