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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar weighs in on what Nirmala Sitharaman offered to India’s middle class in Budget 2022-23 — virtually nothing — after registering a record GST collection of Rs 1.40 lakh crore in January, which she said was possible due to “rapid economic recovery”.
E.P. Unny wonders if Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget for 2022-23, presented Tuesday, will prove to be ‘upyogi‘ (beneficial) for the ruling BJP in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. PM Narendra Modi had said last month that UP plus Yogi (Adityanath, the CM) was an ‘upyogi‘ combination.
Satish Acharya also comments on electoral considerations for UP CM Adityanath as he draws on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent statement emphasising the significance of the Budget over the upcoming assembly polls.
Sajith Kumar reflects on the jobs crisis in India — after the Economic Survey 2021-22 emphasised an uptick in employment data — as he alludes to protests that broke out in UP and Bihar against alleged discrepancies in the Railway Recruitment Board’s NTPC stage 1 exam results.
R. Prasad uses a BJP election slogan to comment on the raids by the Income Tax Department on businessmen allegedly linked to Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav.
After US President Joe Biden issued a warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin over rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine, Sandeep Adhwaryu alludes to the US’ withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban’s takeover of the country to show mocking laughter from Russia, Pakistan, China, and the Taliban.