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In today’s featured cartoon, Rachita Taneja pokes fun at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for ‘janata curfew’, asking people to stay indoors Sunday for 14 hours, while ignoring the need to have more COVID-19 testing kits.
Kruttika Susarla suggests that the coronavirus has given PM Modi an excuse to “wash his hands” of the country’s economic crisis.
Alok Nirantar shows Union Home Minister Amit Shah taking advantage of the nationwide panic in the wake of coronavirus to topple the Congress government in Madhya Pradesh.
Manjul also weighs in on the political situation in Madhya Pradesh by referring to PM Modi’s address to the nation over coronavirus earlier this week.
Sajith Kumar connects the coronavirus ‘panic buying’ with the political situation in Madhya Pradesh.
Such is the panic among the common masses and the ruling dispensation at the centre, that while the common man went on a panic buying spree to hoard foodgrains and groceries, the MP UNIT of the BJP was busy hoarding congress MLA’s. And , as if this wasn’t enough, just look at the irony of the situation in which the country finds itself. Whereas, the safety of the health-workers and professionals has already been jeopardized, with their being an acute shortage of PPE’s, so essential to protect them from getting infected, the PM was busy making an all out ,earnest effort ensuring that we Indian’s welcomed the covid2019, by banging utensils and clapping our hands. The government of the day should realise that the covid19 is a medical emergency, the scale and dimension of which is simply unimaginable and it just sends chills and shivers down the spine, to imagine the magnitude of this impending catastrophe. The most valuable asset of any country in this situation is, without a shade of doubt, the health infrastructure built and maintained by its government and the most important human resource is it’s team of health-workers and professionals. If, as a result of unavailability of adequate sanitizing kits, the health workers get infected and go into quarantine, then it will be a worst case scenario where the country would get stuck in a quagmire.
And here we have a PM, who is busy counting the heads who followed his dictat and obliged him by joining the clapping brigade. Reports are coming in that the PM took a strong exception to the fact that all did not fall in line in observing the ‘janta curfew’ on 22’nd March. Perhaps he was also offended because everybody did not find it so very sensible to clap and bang plates and pots. I wonder if the honourable PM took notice, of the fact, that while many were busy clapping, there were still many others, who were shedding silent tears of agony, isolation and abandonment. These were the daughters of Mother India, who have been protesting against the inimical central legislation, CAA 2019, and the NPR and NRC exercise that is supposedly on the anvils, waiting to be implemented soon, in utter disregard of the worries, doubts and aspersions of the Indian Minority community. No central authority, till date, has bothered or cared to visit these protest sites or to call them for a discussion, so that an amicable solution is arrived at. What sort of hypocrites are these people. When Mr. Jai Shankar Prasad, a central minister, faces the heat of litigation in a row against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, for having addressed him in derogatory terms, he immediately reconciles and apologises publicly saying that in a democracy the importance of arguments, dispute, disagreement and criticisms cannot be denied. Then how come, the same government of which, Jai Shankar Prasad is a minister, calls the ‘Shaheen Baag’ protestors anti-nationals and traitors. This seems to be nothing, but a comedy of errors, at best and a democratic farce at worst. And with a country, facing an economic crisis of sorts, a social unrest unprecedented since the Independence movement, so challenged, the PM thinks of countering the deadly corona challenge. God save my India.
Jai Hind.
(Md. Israil)
Janata curfew was an effort for forced isolation.It has worked.Reason why all trains are cancelled till 31st and 75 districts will be under lock down.Country has done reasonably well till date if we compare figures of people who have died in China, Italy, Iran and elsewhere.