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In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu takes a jibe at the ambitious Kashi Vishwanath Corridor project inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday, which resulted in the displacement of several local people, loss of their centuries-old homes, and demolition of many buildings.
Sajith Kumar mocks the pomp and circumstance surrounding the Kashi Vishwanath temple at a time when the common person in India is facing a host of issues.
Satish Acharya illustrates the different activities the PM did on his Varanasi trip, and jokes that while Modi kept changing clothes, the common man has had to sell his clothes to buy expensive LPG cylinders.
E.P Unny draws a parallel between the inauguration of the Kashi Vishwanath corridor and the suspension of 12 opposition MPs from Parliament for allegedly being unruly and violent during the Monsoon Session in August.
Manjul links the report of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the UP Police investigating the Lakhimpur Kheri case with the upcoming assembly elections in the state. The SIT has said the incident was a ‘well planned and deliberate act’, and not negligence or callousness.
Kirtish Bhatt on Tejashwi Yadav introducing his newly wedded wife Rachel Godinho as “Rajshri” post-marriage, as he said said the moniker given by his father Lalu Prasad would be easier to pronounce. In the cartoon, a political leader convinces voters that if the RJD leader can get his wife’s name changed, imagine what else he can change.