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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar takes a dig at the Centre’s decision to raise repo rate by 50 basis points to 5.40 per cent in August to control inflation. The repo rate, in fact, was raised thrice in the last four months. On 12 September, the retail inflation went up from 6.71 per cent in July to 7 per cent in August, mainly due to higher food prices.
Satish Acharya alludes to Road Transport minister Nitin Gadkari’s move to wrap up a six-airbag policy for cars by the end of the current fiscal year following former Tata chairman Cyrus Mistry’s fatal crash in Palghar, Maharashtra.
Sajith Kumar draws on the BJP’s focus on the attire of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi during his ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra. First, the party had targeted him for wearing a branded T-shirt. It is now the turn of his blue sneakers, with many taunting Rahul about its price and brand.
Sandeep Adhwaryu takes a dig at the prevailing political mood which focuses on the contentious issues from the past, including the Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Idgah dispute, even as pressing issues including inflation is affecting the poor.
E. P. Unny highlights the buzz surrounding over the Gyanvapi verdict that rejected a plea by the Anjuman Intezamia Committee, which challenged the maintainability of a petition seeking permission to perform ‘pooja’ at the mosque. The renaming of cities and public spaces as seen as in the case of the recently inaugurated Kartavya Path is also referred to in the cartoon.