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As tension rises in Assam before the next NRC list is released on 31 July, with many already declared foreigners and detained, E.P. Unny, wonders if anyone can be considered ‘safe’, in today’s featured cartoon. The cartoonist also alludes to FIRs lodged against 10 Assamese poets and activists for allegedly portraying the Assamese community as xenophobic in their Miah poetry.
Nala Ponnappa teams up two of today’s burning issues – rebel MLAs in the Congress-JD(S) coalition in Karnataka and ‘technical glitch’ in the Indian Space Research Organisation’s moon mission – for a tongue-and-cheek cartoon.
Sajith Kumar takes a jibe at Hema Malini’s unimpressive efforts to clean roads outside the Parliament, alongside Minister of State For Finance Anurag Thakur, as part of the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ which many have termed a publicity stunt.
R Prasad depicts cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu’s resignation from the Congress party, leaving Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh to fend for himself.
Manjul pokes fun at the Modi government’s outlandish claim of making India a $5 trillion economy by 2024 according to the 2019 budget. The cartoonist alludes to the launch of ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2, India’s second moon mission after 2008.
Alok Nirantar takes a potshot at the crisis in the Congress party in Goa and Karnataka while also showing how the grand old party is slowly losing ground in Indian politics.