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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar alludes to NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s remarks that efforts should be made to reach out to opposition leaders including Mamata Banerjee who has already declared that her party, the TMC, will contest the 2024 elections alone.
Irshad Kaptan too draws on opposition parties’ attempts to close ranks in order to be able to take on the BJP in the 2024 general election.
Neelabh Banerjee pokes fun at the Punjab Police over its failure to nab Amritpal Singh despite having launched a statewide operation to bring the radical preacher to book.
Satish Acharya comments on leaders from key players in Karnataka — BJP, Congress and JD(S) — shifting loyalties following the declaration of candidates for the upcoming assembly elections.
Kirtish Bhatt draws on the analysis by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) which revealed that 29 of the 30 incumbent chief ministers in India are multi-millionaires. The illustration shows a woman asking her husband: “Are they multi-millionaires because they are CMs or are they CMs because they are multi-millionaires? Please explain in detail.”