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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar comments on the Centre’s decision to set up a ‘Bad Bank‘ to offload Rs 2 lakh crore worth of non-performing assets (NPAs) in five years, and suggests the government’s fall-back option is the taxpayer’s money.
Manjul mocks the Narendra Modi government and its ‘parrot’ Income Tax Department on the 20-hour-long ‘survey’ at actor Sonu Sood’s office for alleged tax evasion. Sood had garnered nationwide approval for his charity work during the lockdown.
Kirtish Bhatt has a tongue-in-cheek take on ‘Operation Clean‘ — all ministers from former Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani’s cabinet being dropped from the new Bhupendra Patel government. The cartoonist depicts a reporter showing up to ask a minister about unemployment on a day he himself was sacked.
Sandeep Adhwaryu suggests that the common man’s spine is shattered, which is just as well because ‘showing a spine’ puts Income Tax Department, CBI, and other central agencies on one’s back.
Sajith Kumar takes a shot at ‘Sansad TV‘, launched Wednesday, which has merged Lok Sabha TV and Rajya Sabha TV. He refers to Doordarshan’s iconic logo and shows an MP dozing off.