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In today’s featured cartoon, Sajith Kumar alludes to the viral video of an alleged associate of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader urinating on a 36-year-old Kol tribal man in Madhya Pradesh’s Sidhi. Kumar questions whether the MP CM’s act of washing the feet of the tribal person does anything to combat caste-based inequality.
Here, Sandeep Adhwaryu analyses the Shiv Sena’s support for the Uniform Civil Code. He attributes this to the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance and a change in power dynamics. Ironically, Maharashtra has two deputy CMs while condemning polygamy.
Nala Ponnappa gives a satirical take on the tomato price hike. Tomato prices have skyrocketed so quickly that they are being compared to stars in the sky.
The Monsoon session in parliament is due to start on 20 July. EP Unny highlights that the overarching pieces of legislative discussion over UCC are likely to drown out discourse on the data protection bill.