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In today’s featured cartoon, Sajith Kumar depicts the common man running out of democratic resources as the government breaks the RTI arrow. It refers to the RTI (Amendment) Bill passed by both houses of Parliament, which has lead to fears that the transparency law will be subverted as information commissioners will be at the mercy of the government.
Manjul also comments on the RTI (Amendment) Bill, depicting that the Right to Information in India is dead.
R. Prasad takes a swipe at the Narendra Modi government for passing the RTI (Amendment) Bill. He shows the government lecturing the people to have faith in its wisdom and not in information.
Mika Aziz puns on the alleged horse-trading in the Karnataka assembly that led to the fall of H.D. Kumaraswamy’s Congress-JD(S) government, and BJP leader B.S. Yediyurappa taking oath as CM for the fourth time.
Satish Acharya take a dig at former Indian cricket captain M.S. Dhoni, an honorary Lieutenant Colonel in the Territorial Army who has joined up with his battalion in Kashmir on ‘guard duty’.