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In today’s featured cartoon, Satish Acharya portrays Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech, where he promises to return for next year’s address. A voter playfully questions whether it’s ‘confidence or arrogance’, cleverly alluding to his power and the upcoming general elections next year.
Sajith Kumar’s cartoon sheds light on the prevailing destructive unrest in Manipur that the central and state administrations have failed to stop — questioning whether its concerns were included in PM Modi’s future agenda which he spelt out in his Independence Day speech Tuesday.
Manjul’s cartoon serves as a thought-provoking commentary on Narendra Modi’s recent address to the Lok Sabha, wherein he was accused by the Opposition of making jokes while “Manipur burned”. The cartoonist wonders if Modi himself found his speeches funny.
Sandeep Adhwaryu’s cartoon reflects the concerns that Sharad Parwar’s allies Rahul Gandhi and Udhhav Thackeray might have over the veteran leader’s recent meetings with nephew Ajit, who recently split Senior Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and aligned with the BJP government in Maharashtra.
On Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s death anniversary, Alok’s cartoon depicts a visibly dejected man having a conversation with the former prime minister. The man, representing “Raj Dharma”, expresses difficulty, in a clear reference to Vajpayee’s advice to Modi during the 2002 Gujarat riots when he was chief minister of the state.