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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar suggests how embattled Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray in his meeting with Arvind Kejriwal Friday might have advised the Delhi chief minister to keep his friends close and his second-in-command — Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, the only other AAP leader who is chief minister of a state — closer.
With help from an inquisitive Mohandas Gandhi, Satish Acharya alludes to a faux pas then prime ministerial prospect Narendra Modi made in 2013, to comment on the case against Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera for ‘mistakenly’ referring to Modi as “Narendra Gautamdas Modi” — a not-so subtle jibe at the prime minister for his rapport with Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani in the backdrop of the Hindenburg Research report.
Referring to former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa’s decision to retire from active politics, Nala Ponnappa gives his take on the need for a voluntary retirement scheme for inactive politicians in an apparent jibe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
Manjul depicts the predicament the BJP finds itself in, with the opposition accusing it of shielding the Adani Group in the wake of the fallout of a US-based short seller’s report accusing the conglomerate of “brazen market manipulation and accounting fraud”.
Sajith Kumar, while referring to the resolution passed in the Congress’s 85th plenary session calling for a united opposition to take on the BJP in 2024, suggests that it might be a last-ditch effort to cozy up to other opposition parties that have been chipping away at the party’s vote in states across the country.