The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.
The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately.
Alok Nirantar has a funny take on Vijay Mallya’s claim of meeting Arun Jaitley before leaving India. He imagines that the ghost of fugitive business tycoon Vijay Mallya has come to haunt Jaitley and PM Narendra Modi just before 2019 elections.
In the wake of the EVM controversy in DUSU elections, ATM assumes that these voting machines may have been procured privately. After ABVP won the elections, there were allegations of tampering with the EVMs. However, it took a new turn when Chief Electoral Officer in Delhi announced that the EVMs were not issued by the Election Commission and they might have been purchased from a private agency.
Irfan reacts to the falling value of rupee by each day with the hard-hitting cartoon.
In The Economic Times, cartoonist R. Prasad tries to read Bhim Army founder Chandrashekhar Azad’s mind. Azad, who was arrested in June for his alleged involvement in Saharanpur caste violence case, has been recently released from jail.
Satish Acharya takes a jibe at K. Chandrashekhar Rao who is acting as a caretaker chief minister of Telangana until a new government is sworn in. On 6 September, Rao dissolved the assembly and called for an early election. While Rao’s sitting in the CM chair might seem odd to others, he claims he is there only as a chowkidar.