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In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu draws on the three unalienable rights — life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness — enshrined in the United States’ Declaration of Independence. He notes how the US troops withdrawal from Afghanistan triggered the Taliban takeover, virtually leaving Afghan citizens without these same rights.
R. Prasad takes a dig at the Congress and highlights its leadership challenges as former MP Sushmita Dev, a prominent face of the party in Assam, leaves the Congress to join the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress.
Kirtish Bhatt also illustrates on Afghanistan’s collapse that has left its citizens scrambling to the leave the country as the Taliban moves to take complete control after the US ended its longest war and moved its troops out.
Satish Acharya takes a dig at the Modi government on its vehicle scrapping policy with a reference to the NDA’s often-repeated refrain about the UPA’s shortcomings.