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In today’s featured cartoon, Satish Acharya takes a dig at the Modi government over the series of snags that have hit the service of Vande Bharat Express. He also pokes fun at Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s vegetable shopping in Chennai. In the cartoon, Modi asks Sitharaman to get some ‘nimbu-mirchi‘ (a token to ward off evil eye) for ending the bad run of the much-hyped train.
Kirtish Bhatt comments on the Reserve Bank of India’s pilot launch of the e-rupee amid the declining value of the Indian currency. In the illustration, two people is seen talking to a reporter saying: “It is a welcome move. If the rupee is not visible and not minted, how will it fall?”
Alok Nirantar alludes to the tussle in Maharashtra between the Shiv Sena factions of Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde over the party’s name and symbol. The Election Commission has allotted the symbol of a flaming torch to Thackeray. Shinde, meanwhile, has got two swords and shield as party symbol until a final order is passed.
Sandeep Adhwaryu, too, highlights the battle of the rival Sena camps over the party’s name and symbol ahead of the upcoming Andheri East bypoll.
E. P. Unny hopes that in the wake of Mulayam Singh Yadav’s death, the Samajwadi Party does not befall the same fate as the Shiv Sena.
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