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In today’s featured cartoon, Sajith Kumar highlights the contrast in police action against self-proclaimed vigilante Monu Manesar — the Bajrang Dal-affiliated gau rakshak accused in the murder of two Muslim men from Rajasthan — and Congress leaders like Pawan Khera who was deplaned and arrested from the tarmac at Delhi’s IGI Airport on complaints filed against him in Assam and Uttar Pradesh for making “derogatory” remarks against PM Modi.
E.P. Unny, too, gives his take on how Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera was not allowed to take a flight to Raipur to attend the party’s plenary session owing to the zeal of officers of the Delhi and Assam police who, by extension of their actions, dubbed him a flight risk.
Depicting the lost art of fixing a shattered bone using nothing other than a band-aid, Sandeep Adhwaryu comments on Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s statement that the party — riding high on the success of the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra — will lead a coalition of opposition parties that will unseat the BJP in the 2024 general election.
Alok Nirantar underlines the need for public-sector giants like the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) to read offer documents carefully before investing, in the backdrop of an analysis suggesting that the value of LIC’s investments in Adani Group companies has turned negative following the release of the Hindenburg Research report.
Satish Acharya alludes to the EC order allocating the Shiv Sena name and symbol (bow and arrow) to the Eknath Shinde-led faction, illustrating how the Maharashtra CM now faces the uphill task of appropriating the legacy of Balasaheb without a Thackeray at his side.