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Taking a jibe at Trinamool Congress’s slogan for ‘Poriborton (change)’, in today’s featured cartoon, Satish Acharya depicts West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s move to hire political strategist Prashant Kishore for the 2021 state assembly elections campaign.
Kirtish Bhatt weighs in on the staggering election expenditure by political parties during the Lok Sabha polls as reported by non-profit think-tank, CMS. With the BJP reportedly spending 45 per cent of the total Rs 60,000 crore, Bhatt calls it an investment rather than expenditure.
Mahamud comments on Home Minister Amit Shah’s prominence in the new Narendra Modi government, as the PM reconstituted the cabinet committees and made Shah chief of two of them. The cartoonist contrasts that with the wane of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s influence in the government.
As the Modi government begins its second term, Sajith Kumar takes a jibe at the November 2016 demonetisation policy, illustrating RBI governor Shaktikanta Das’s possible fears.
Nala Ponnappa makes a comment on the protests over the New Education Policy draft, which is being seen as a way of ‘Hindi imposition’ in south Indian states.
Referring to Miguel de Cervantes’s novel Don Quixote, Sandeep Adhwaryu highlights the recent Niti Aayog report which calls the ongoing water crisis in India the ‘worst’ in its history.