The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.
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Former President Pranab Mukherjee, who addressed an RSS event in Nagpur Thursday, gave quite some fodder to cartoonists. Sajith Kumar, for example, seeks to illustrate the confusion he believes Mukherjee’s reference to the Constitution caused among RSS cadres. Critics have often accused the RSS and affiliates of working against the nature of the Constitution, which identifies India as secular.
In Mail Today, Satish Acharya seeks to take a jab at Narendra Modi, the star campaigner for the BJP, saying he was starting to realise that he needed other political parties on board ahead of 2019. But only as fielders.
Surendra, in The Hindu, seeks to show that the BJP first pushed its allies away and is now trying to woo them back.
In Sakal Times, Alok Nirantar shows Congress president Rahul Gandhi gatecrashing the RSS event in disguise to hear Pranab Mukherjee’s speech first-hand, as Sonia tries to eavesdrop. Mukherjee’s decision is said to have caused much anger and shock among his party colleagues.
Cartoonist Sagar Kumar has a witty take on the ladder that just might get the BJP to win the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
(A common man to Rajinikanth: “You said Kaala means black, that’s why.”)
Rajinikanth’s film Kaala released Thursday amid much controversy about the actor-politician’s stance on the Tuticorin protests against the proposed expansion of the Sterlite copper smelter unit. The actor had blamed “anti-social elements” for the violence in Tuticorin, where 13 protesters were allegedly killed in police firing, and urged the state government to “come down hard on the agitators”. The protest was triggered by allegations of ecological poisoning caused by the plant.
In Firstpost, Manjul suggests Mukherjee walked a tightrope with his RSS address.
In Live Mint, Jayachandran N. shows how Amit Shah is struggling to hold the NDA together as splits are starting to show.