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In today’s featured cartoon, Manjul mocks the Vijay Rupani-led Gujarat government’s decision to halve the new fines for traffic violations implemented across the country.
Sajith Kumar depicts the political tension in Andhra Pradesh after former CM and TDP chief N. Chandrababu Naidu, his son and several other party leaders were placed under house arrest by Jagan Mohan Reddy’s government for planning a protest. Kumar suggests even mosquito bites will now be blamed on Naidu.
Alok Nirantar takes a swipe at Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s statement, where she attributed the drop in car sales to the popularity of cab aggregators Uber and Ola among India’s millennials.
In the context of PM Modi’s remark that some people’s “hairs rise” every time cows are mentioned, Kirtish Bhatt depicts a common person commenting that this is today’s fashion, and that he has nothing to do with cows or politics.
Gopal Shoonya weighs in on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami’s recent foreign trips to the USA, UK and UAE to get investment, and his plan to visit Israel next. The cartoonist shows Palaniswami’s transformation into ‘Edappadi 2.0’.