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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar caricatures the bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the ongoing G-20 summit in Japan. With Trump looking to secure a re-election, the cartoonist illustrates Modi’s ‘striking’ advice to him.
Satish Acharya takes a swipe at Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot and Congress president Rahul Gandhi after the state government chargesheeted 2017 Alwar mob lynching victim Pehlu Khan and his sons for illegal transport of cattle. The cartoonist builds the punch around the recent controversy over the alleged ‘saffronisation’ of the Indian cricket team jersey.
Mika Aziz takes a dig at Home Minister Amit Shah’s speech in Parliament where he discussed Modi government’s welfare plans for Jammu and Kashmir, while slamming the policies of India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
Alluding to a statement Mahatma Gandhi once made about disbanding the Congress after independence, R. Prasad takes a dig at Rahul Gandhi’s insistence on quitting as the party president even as his organisation resists the move.
Sajith Kumar depicts the quick loss of ‘ground’ for former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, both politically and literally, as a new controversy breaks out over his “illegal bungalow”.
Sandeep Adhwaryu pays homage to former Indian prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao on his 98th birth anniversary.