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In today’s featured cartoon, R. Prasad reworks India’s national motto, ‘Satyameva Jayate’ (truth alone prevails), to take a potshot at the ‘competitive sloganeering’ of Members of Parliament with religious chants during the oath-taking of some MPs.
Gopal Shunya also lashes out at Parliament members for chanting religious slogans during oath-taking even as houses in Bihar mourned the tragic deaths of over 100 children in an encephalitis outbreak.
Alok Nirantar takes a dig at the appointment of J.P. Nadda as the new BJP working president and ‘right-hand man’ of former chief Amit Shah who has now moved to the Modi government as Home Minister.
Manjul takes a jibe at BJP’s Hindutva politics as he comments on the election of Om Birla as Lok Sabha Speaker.
Nala Ponnappa puns on the ‘incurable’ nationalism that has permeated the Indian political discourse.
With the death of over 100 children in Bihar due to encephalitis, Sandeep Adhwaryu takes a jibe at the seemingly far-fetched promises of Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan who announced a state-of-the-art research centre for crisis-hit Muzaffarpur.