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In today’s featured cartoon, Nala Ponnappa pokes fun at BJP MP Tejasvi Surya in the backdrop of reports suggesting that he “accidentally” opened the emergency exit of an IndiGo aircraft after boarding it at the Chennai airport last month.
Alok Nirantar, comments on J.P. Nadda’s extension as national president of the BJP while alluding to the party’s two-day national executive meet in Delhi which concluded Tuesday.
Sajith Kumar, too, gives his take on Nadda’s extension as BJP chief till 2024, suggesting that he is a ‘mouthpiece’ of the party’s top leaders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
Kirtish Bhatt depicts Opposition parties’ strong objection to the Election Commission of India’s proposal to introduce remote voting machines for migrant voters. In the illustration, a politician, pointing at another holding a remote, is telling his colleagues, “Someone make him understand that this does not mean a remote-operated EVM!”
Satish Acharya alludes to the uncertainty looming large in Joshimath that has been struck by land subsidence, forcing residents to vacate their homes and seek shelter elsewhere.
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