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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar draws on Union Home minister Amit Shah’s visit to Mumbai during which he met CM Eknath Shinde and reportedly told BJP leaders that the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena “sought votes” in 2019 on PM Modi’s name and work done by Devendra Fadnavis, but Thackeray “betrayed” the BJP and must be “punished” for it.
R. Prasad takes a dig at the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI(M) for denying former Kerala health minister K.K. Shailaja permission to receive the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay award on the grounds that former Philippines president Ramon Magsaysay — in whose honour the award was constituted — was a ‘staunch anti-Communist’.
Kirtish Bhatt alludes to trolling faced by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi who — during the ‘Mehangai Par Halla Bol‘ rally at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan Sunday — said atta (wheat flour), which was “earlier Rs 22 per litre is now Rs 40 per litre”, before correcting it to kg. In the illustration, a woman riding a two-wheeler can be seen telling her son: “No one is talking about the real issue. Prices are rising both in litres and kilos.”
Sajith Kumar draws on how incessant rainfall has led to waterlogging in parts of Bengaluru, also known as India’s Silicon Valley. Electronic City, Marathahalli, Outer Ring Road, Mahadevapura, Whitefield and Bommanahalli have been identified as the most affected.
Nala Ponnappa gives his take on how the failure of Bengaluru’s civic body — the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) — in clearing encroachments on storm-water drains resulted in waterlogging and traffic snarls in parts of the city.