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In today’s featured cartoon, Sajith Kumar depicts how the Narendra Modi government has trashed the criticism it has received for its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic from medical journal The Lancet and former PM Manmohan Singh.
Alok Nirantar takes a shot at the BJP’s practice of sidelining its leaders by making them ‘margdarshaks‘ (guides), after Himanta Biswa Sarma got the chief ministership of Assam instead of incumbent Sarbananda Sonowal.
Sandeep Adhwaryu mocks the Modi government for its continued spending on the Central Vista project, amid the nationwide Covid crisis and shortages of vaccines and other resources.
R. Prasad shows that in appointed a 12-member task force to ensure distribution of medical oxygen to states and union territories amid the Covid crisis, the Supreme Court has painted a target on its back.
P. Mahmud also refers to the Modi government’s push for the Central Vista project and the Supreme Court’s task force to address the nationwide oxygen shortage.