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In today’s featured cartoon, R. Prasad alludes to the Congress presidential elections and the growing demand within the party for electoral rolls to be made public. Madhusudan Mistry, head of the Congress’ Central Election Authority, had earlier this week said that there should be no doubt in anyone’s mind about the fairness of the electoral process, and that ballot boxes will be brought to Delhi after voting has concluded.
Sandeep Adhwaryu draws on the passing of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, who had introduced liberal reforms and opened the USSR to the world, and leaders from around the world paying their respects, Russian President Vladimir Putin among them.
E P Unny takes a dig at the efforts of the Karnataka Olympic Association in constituting a high-level committee to groom and train 75 potential medal-winners for the 2024 Olympics.
Sajith Kumar alludes to an awkward moment between Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and his Telangana counterpart K Chandrashekhar Rao at a press conference Thursday. When pressed with questions about the Bihar CM’s possible candidacy against Modi in the 2024 general elections, KCR kept asking Nitish to sit while the latter wanted to leave.
Kirtish Bhatt draws on reports about a school teacher being allegedly beaten up by class 9 students in Jharkhand’s Dumka district Monday after the teacher allegedly did not give them “practical examination assessment marks” in their exams.