No Pilot in cockpit, Congress takes nosedive & how to open ‘floodgates’ of creativity
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No Pilot in cockpit, Congress takes nosedive & how to open ‘floodgates’ of creativity

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

   
Alok Nirantar | Twitter/@caricatured

Alok Nirantar | Twitter/@caricatured

The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately.

In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar alludes to how a faction of Congress MLAs in Rajasthan loyal to CM Ashok Gehlot have threatened to resign if his former deputy Sachin Pilot is appointed chief minister by the party’s central leadership to make way for Gehlot’s candidature as the next Congress president.

Manjul | Twitter/@MANJULtoons | Vibes of India

Manjul, too, comments on political uncertainty gripping Rajasthan Congress after the party’s central leadership hinted that it wanted Ashok Gehlot to vacate the post of chief minister before he could take over the party’s reins as Congress president.

Vishnu Madhav | Twitter/@pencilashan

Vishnu Madhav draws on Ashok Gehlot ‘muddying the waters’ over differences with Sachin Pilot as the BJP watches Congress implode in Rajasthan which goes to polls next year.

Sandeep Adhwaryu | The Times of India

Sandeep Adhwaryu opines on RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat’s meetings with Muslim thought leaders earlier this week making headlines in the backdrop of unemployment in the country rising to a 12-month high of 8.3 per cent in August.

Irshad Kaptan | Twitter/@irshadkaptan1

Irshad Kaptan gives his take on how waterlogging disrupted life following incessant rainfall, in Haryana’s Gurugram last week. In the illustration, a man wading through floodwater on what looks like an indigenous amphibious vehicle can be seen saying: “It is unlikely that roads will be built according to vehicles… So we made a vehicle according to the roads.”