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In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu alludes to the outrage over Ranveer Singh’s photoshoot – for which the actor now faces a police case – in the backdrop of inflation, dip in employment, and inclusion of pre-labelled food items in the GST regime.
Kirtish Bhatt delivers his take on the Enforcement Directorate (ED) questioning Congress president Sonia Gandhi in the National Herald case and arresting Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Partha Chatterjee in connection with the West Bengal School Service Commission recruitment (SSC) scam. In the illustration, a woman can be seen telling her husband while pointing at their son: “Why don’t you talk more about politics in the house. His school has sent us a complaint. He wrote E for ED.”
Satish Acharya refers to a video of the Delhi Police manhandling Youth Congress chief Srinivas BV as he was protesting the ED’s decision to summon Congress president Sonia Gandhi for questioning in the National Herald case. Srinivas won praise last year for helping Covid-19 patients and their families during the second wave of the pandemic.
Sajith Kumar comments on the suspension of 20 opposition MPs from the Rajya Sabha for the remaining week and four Lok Sabha MPs for the remainder of the ongoing Monsoon Session for ‘disrupting proceedings’, actions the opposition says amounts to “suspension of democracy”.