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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar pokes fun at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in the 2019 criminal defamation case which led to his disqualification from the Lok Sabha Friday in the backdrop of Opposition parties demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into allegations against the Adani Group.
R. Prasad draws on demonstrations outside Indian missions in the UK and the US to highlight how pro-Khalistan elements are stoking anti-India sentiment in those countries.
Nala Ponnappa too refers to pro-Khalistan protests in the UK, while commenting on how the central government reportedly opted for a ‘tit-for-tat’ response with the removal of extra barricades placed outside the British High Commission in Delhi.
Referring to the Bharat Jodo Yatra Rahul Gandhi spearheaded, E.P. Unny comments on the Congress leader’s conviction in a 2019 criminal defamation case.
Kirtish Bhatt refers to CJI Chandrachud’s speech at the 2023 Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards, where he said that the press must remain free if India has to remain a democracy. In the illustration, a newsreader is seen saying, “Have we asked investors, advertisers, financers, parties and organisations whether we can read this news?”