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Alok Nirantar takes a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ campaign by bringing in the unemployment issue.
Kirtish Bhatt, for BBC News Hindi, pokes fun at Congress general secretary for Uttar Pradesh (East) Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s comment that neither she nor her brother Rahul Gandhi has any interest in ‘satta’ (political power). Priyanka had made the comments while speaking at Sitamarhi during a halt in her 140-km ‘Ganga Yatra’ earlier this week.
With the BJP stepping up the ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ campaign, Manjul shows how the party’s supporters or ‘chowkidars’ are keeping an eye on what voters think, eat, read or even wear.
Mika Aziz shows the decline of BJP veteran L.K. Advani’s fortunes. The BJP on Thursday named party president Amit Shah as the Lok Sabha candidate for Gandhinagar in Gujarat, which Advani represented six times in the past.
Nala Ponnappa takes a jibe at Lok Sabha election candidates in Karnataka, seeking divine blessings to get their nomination papers cleared.
Sajith Kumar, for Deccan Herald, takes a potshot at the BJP for politicising the air strikes in Pakistan’s Balakot, by showing party president Amit Shah giving away ‘Air Force and Army kits’ to the Lok Sabha election nominees after the release of the first list of candidates.
Satish Acharya depicts the celebration of the ‘Festival of Democracy’ as the election season heats up by comparing the Lok Sabha elections with Holi, the festival of colours.