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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar takes a dig at the overwhelming control Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah enjoy over the newly sworn-in Union cabinet.
Nala Ponnappa takes a potshot at Karnataka chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy’s dilemma over whether to expand his cabinet or reshuffle it.
As the Modi government took oath for its second term, Kirtish Bhatt illustrates a common man urging the President to ensure a pledge from the new regime that it won’t implement policies like the demonetisation.
With Time now saying that ‘Modi has united India like no Prime Minister in decades’, Neelabh Banerjee highlights the change in the stance of the magazine that had called Prime Minister Narendra Modi ‘India’s divider in chief’ just weeks ago.
Irfan depicts Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s smooth ‘ride’ to the Parliament on the back of ‘nationalism’ even as he ignored issues like unemployment and farm distress in the run up to the Lok Sabha elections.
Citing last week’s instances of violence against Muslims, Swathi Vadlamudi lashes out at the Modi government over its new slogan ‘Sab ka Saath, Sab ka Vikas, Sab Ka Vishwas’ as she illustrates Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s way of gaining the minorities’ ‘trust’.
Quoting Karl Marx, Hemant Morparia pokes fun at the ‘atheist’ CPM in Kerala after its poor performance in the Lok Sabha elections.