The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately.
In today’s featured cartoon, Sajith Kumar takes a potshot at the BSP-SP alliance in Uttar Pradesh and Congress president Rahul Gandhi after their humiliating defeats in the Lok Sabha elections. While the BSP-SP had won 15 seats out of 80 in UP, the Congress tally stood at just 52 nationally.
Satish Acharya takes a jibe at Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who offered to resign after his party’s defeat in the Lok Sabha elections. The cartoonist juxtaposes it with Congress leader Sam Pitroda’s ‘hua to hua’ comment on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Alok Nirantar illustrates Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah pleading Rahul Gandhi to not resign. The cartoonist is trying to suggest that Rahul Gandhi may be the weakest opposition leader that BJP would never want to let go of.
Sandeep Adhwaryu, for The Times of India, takes a swipe at the Congress after the party’s defeat in the Lok Sabha elections and suggests the party needs to pull up its socks if it wants to stay relevant.
R. Prasad, for The Economic Times, takes a jibe at both Rahul Gandhi and CPI’s Kanhaiya Kumar for their defeats in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, and Begusarai, Bihar, respectively. The cartoonist refers to Kanhaiya’s ‘azadi’ speech in JNU to make his point.