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In today’s featured cartoon, E.P. Unny alludes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s comments amid elections in Uttar Pradesh, accusing the Samajwadi Party (SP) of shielding terrorists, saying that “bombs were kept on cycles”. The bicycle is the SP’s election symbol. This came shortly after a special court in Gujarat sentenced 38 convicts in the 2008 Ahmedabad bomb blasts to death and the remaining 11 to life imprisonment.
Sandeep Adhwaryu draws a parallel between the revelations about former National Stock Exchange MD Chitra Ramkrishna sharing confidential information with a mysterious ‘yogi’ and taking trips to tax havens such as the Seychelles, and voters’ belief in promises of vikas (development) in India.
Sajith Kumar also takes a dig at the NSE case, which saw the advice of the ‘yogi’ secure a Rs 1.68 crore pay package for an employee — allegedly himself.
R. Prasad also alludes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s allegations that the SP was sympathetic to terrorists, with a twist on the Hindutva slogan of ‘Hindu khatre mein hai (Hindus are in danger)’.
Kirtish Bhatt draws on 21 February being celebrated worldwide as International Mother Language Day, and comments on the election speeches of political leaders, who often recycle the same 10-12 keywords to forward their campaigns.