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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar gives his take on Bihar CM Nitish Kumar’s back-to-back meetings with leaders of opposition parties — including Telangana CM KCR, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, among others — in a bid to shore up unity with an eye on the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Kumar, however, has denied speculation about him being the opposition’s prime ministerial candidate just yet.
Sandeep Adhwaryu alludes to waterlogging in parts of Bengaluru while referring to controversies over hijab, halal and loudspeakers that have marred Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai’s tenure.
Satish Acharya comments on water from overflowing lakes inundating streets and entering residential areas in parts of Bengaluru in the wake of excessive rainfall, for which locals blame encroachments that have cropped up on the city’s water bodies.
Sajith Kumar draws on former Kerala health minister K.K. Shailaja declining the Ramon Magsaysay Award at the insistence of her party, the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Critics of the CPI(M) believe that the decision to deny Shailaja permission to receive the award was an attempt by Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan to ‘clip her wings’.
Kirtish Bhatt refers to attempts by opposition leaders — who have been at odds with each other over a number of issues in the past — to present a united front to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. In the illustration, a reporter standing outside the office of a political party can be heard saying: “He wants all smaller parties to get together. But no party is ready to consider itself small.”