The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.
The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately.
R. Prasad takes a jibe at Congress’s supposed openness to alliances in Uttar Pradesh, where the Bahujan Samaj Party and Samajwadi Party have recently joined hands for the Lok Sabha elections, leaving the Grand Old Party grasping for support.
Manjul has a funny commentary on how the banks’ NPA balloons make them unfit to lend.
With the BSP-SP alliance gaining prominence, another ally of the Congress, the Rashtriya Janta Dal in Bihar, also looks set to desert Rahul Gandhi.
Jackartoons celebrates India’s first bilateral series win in Australia, invoking the ‘surgical strikes’ in the new Bollywood film Uri.
Sajith Kumar illustrates the weight of the Church that Kerala must carry over the alleged rape of a nun by Bishop Franco Mulakkal. Latest reports suggest nuns supporting the survivor were ‘punished’ for speaking up against him.
Raj Thackeray of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena suggests Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking revenge on the common man for the way the Congress ‘harassed’ him when they were in power.
Alok draws up the prime ministerial aspirations of all the chief ministers — from Mamata Banerjee to H.D. Kumaraswamy — as the BSP-SP alliance looks set to be the game-changer ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.