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In today’s featured cartoon, R. Prasad comments on Congress leaders Sonia and Rahul Gandhi being summoned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a case of alleged money laundering, at a time when at least two of their party’s prominent leaders — Hardik Patel and Sunil Jakhar — have jumped ship to the BJP.
The Congress had Wednesday slammed the central agency’s move to summon Sonia and Rahul, saying that it “reeks of vendetta, of pettiness, of fear, of political cheapness”.
Sandeep Adhwaryu takes a dig at the Congress accusing the BJP-led central government of “vendetta politics” in context of the ED summons sent to Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, while it too had been accused of misusing investigating agencies to browbeat the opposition when it was in power in 2013.
Kirtish Bhat takes a swipe at former Gujarat Congress leader Hardik Patel joining the BJP, whose leaders he had publicly berated on more than one occasion.
Sajith Kumar mocks various state governments for declaring actor Akshay Kumar’s new film Samrat Prithviraj tax-free while seemingly turning a blind eye to surging prices of essential commodities, including tomatoes.
The per kilogram average retail price of the vegetable — a staple in every Indian household — has jumped 70 per cent from a month ago, burning a hole in the common man’s pocket.
E. P. Unny comments on the Bihar government’s decision to conduct a caste-based census in the state while mosque-temple disputes continue to dominate headlines.