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In today’s featured cartoon, Sajith Kumar comments on the impact the Goods and Services Tax (GST) hike will have on households, while the media focusses on communal issues. With a 5 per cent GST hike coming into effect Monday, pre-packaged and labelled food items such as cereals, pulses, and flour will be dearer.
On the same topic, Kirtish Bhatt has a take on the common man’s reaction to the rise in the prices of essential items. The cartoon shows a woman at the dining table asking her husband whether the food was too spicy, as he is shedding tears. The man responds that it was because of the GST.
Sandeep Adhwaryu also illustrates the impact of the GST hike, which includes a 5 per cent tax on rent (exceeding Rs 5,000) paid by patients for hospital rooms.
Commenting on the start of Parliament’s Monsoon Session that began Monday, E. P. Unny depicts how the Modi government has lined up 32 Bills to be passed. With the session due to end on 12 August, there will only be 17 working days to do this. Unny also alludes to the controversy over a booklet of “unparliamentary” words published by the Lok Sabha secretariat.
Alok Nirantar draws on the falling value of the rupee, which touched a record low of Rs 80.05 per US dollar Tuesday.