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In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu takes a dig at the political storm over Ajit Pawar of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Maharashtra. The former Maharashtra deputy chief minister has caused unease even among the ruling coalition in the state.
Alok Nirantar, too, draws on the same episode as political speculations get more media coverage than BJP veteran and former J&K governor Satyapal Malik’s recent statement on the 2019 Pulwama attack.
Satish Acharya comments on the death of 13 people due to heat stroke. This happened while they were attending a government award ceremony at Maharashtra’s Navi Mumbai.
R. Prasad alludes to Bhagavad Gita’s teaching that the soul changes the body for taking swipe at former Karnataka chief minister Jagadish Shettar switching from the BJP to the Congress just ahead of the elections in the southern state.
Kirtish Bhatt, too, takes potshots at party-hopping politicians who change their colours in the hope of getting tickets to contest elections.