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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey didn’t attend a parliamentary panel sitting to discuss measures to safeguard citizens’ rights on social media despite being summoned. Gokul Gopalakrishnan alludes to the CBI ‘parrot’ as he depicts the Modi government’s desperate tryst with Twitter.
Kirtish Bhatt suggests that even though the opposition alliance is getting bigger by the day, it has no response to BJP chief Amit Shah’s question over its choice of leader for the Lok Sabha elections.
Madhav Joshi depicts West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s struggle to sweep the BJP out of her state following her brush with the CBI over Saradha scam.
As the controversy over Rafale deal gains momentum ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Aravinda Tegginamath illustrates N. Ram’s reports in ‘The Hindu’ on the PMO’s ‘parallel negotiations’ with the French government over the deal taking down Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Mika Aziz illustrates political parties jostling for election funds from the common man who has nothing to offer.
Nala Ponnappa takes a jibe at BJP state chief B.S. Yeddyurappa who admitted that the voice in the audio tape released by Karnataka chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, accusing the former CM of corruption and MLA poaching, is his own.
R. Prasad takes a potshot at the Modi government’s failure in creating jobs with the suggestion to launch a recruitment racket with a start-up loan.
As Congress president Rahul Gandhi relentlessly attacks the Modi government over the Rafale deal, Sajith Kumar ironically suggests that the latest controversy has undoubtedly ensured jobs for journalists.
Suhail Naqshbandi depicts the state of Jammu and Kashmir being torn apart by infrastructural, social, political and constitutional disputes in the state.