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Alok Nirantar takes a jibe at BJP ally and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, who attended Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nomination filing in Varanasi despite being a vocal critic of the Modi government.
Hemant Morparia takes a potshot at Malegaon blasts accused and BJP Lok Sabha candidate from Bhopal Sadhvi Pragya Thakur’s statements, including her recent ‘gaumutra’ remark in a news interview where she claimed that cow urine cured her of cancer.
Sajith Kumar weighs in on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claim of a ‘pro-incumbency wave’ in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, as the cartoonist refers to the PM’s unfulfilled promises.
After the opposition alleged of being kept under the watch of law enforcement, Satish Acharya takes a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his comments that the agencies “can raid his house if they wish to”.
Suhail Naqshbandi plays with former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s slogan on Kashmir — ‘Insaniyat, Jamhooriyat, Kashmiriyat’ (humanism, democracy and Kashmiri identity) — to depict the changing picture of the Valley amid continued socio-political unrest in the state.