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In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu alludes to the return of the cheetah to India after 70 years to comment on the reluctance of Ashok Gehlot to vacate the post of chief minister of Rajasthan in order to be able to contest the Congress presidential polls. Gehlot has gained a reputation in political circles for being a “jaadugar” (magician).
Satish Acharya gives his take on the ‘Pay CM’ campaign launched by Karnataka Congress to highlight allegations of corruption against the Basavaraj Bommai government, while referring to how Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was seen rebuking a collector in Telangana over the absence of PM Narendra Modi’s pictures at fair price shops.
R. Prasad draws on Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia’s statement that he will look into claims by Congress and Akali Dal about Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann being deplaned from a flight at the Frankfurt airport allegedly because he was in an “inebriated state”.
Sajith Kumar alludes to Information & Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur’s remarks about “mainstream media channels” being the “biggest threat to mainstream media” owing to their plunging credibility and “decisions regarding the guest, the tone and visuals”.
Kirtish Bhatt opines on how a bench of the Supreme Court pulled up the central government for being a “mute witness” to rising instances of hate speech and called for guidelines to regulate TV news debates. In the illustration, a bird can be seen telling another sitting on top of a DTC satellite dish: “This is the time for debates on news channels. Dangerous signals are being transmitted. You will fall sick. Get away from there!”