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Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra took on PM Narendra Modi’s ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ campaign by saying poor people don’t have chowkidars, the rich do. Alok Nirantar pokes fun at Priyanka and her husband Robert Vadra, who demands his own chowkidar.
Hemant Morparia depicts the “cover-up” of the rising death toll of sanitation workers by the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation. A worker died due to inhaling poisonous gas in a manhole in Mumbai earlier this week.
Uday Deb depicts a child popping the bubbles of promises made by political parties in West Bengal ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
R. Prasad pokes fun at the slew of Congress leaders making a beeline to join the BJP.
Sajith Kumar also takes a jibe at the ‘chowkidar’ campaign, showing that the Modi government has failed to address India’s agrarian crisis.
Sandeep Adhwaryu takes a shot at the excitement in the Congress ranks about Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s boat-ride from Prayagraj to Varanasi. He depicts Congress supporters pointing out a ‘Gandhi wave’ inside the boat while it sinks, even as ‘Chowkidar Modi’ and Amit Shah and the BSP-SP alliance look on in their own barges.