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In today’s featured cartoon, Kirtish Bhatt comments on the Bihar Police’s violent response Tuesday towards hundreds of protesters, including many teaching job aspirants, in Patna. The protesters were lathi-charged by the police and had water cannons directed at them.
Bhatt alludes to the viral video clip of Additional District Magistrate (law & order) K.K. Singh beating up a protester lying on the ground while holding aloft a Tricolour and notes that just like the ‘Flag Code’, the baton, too, needs a code on when, where and how to use it.
In his cartoon, Satish Acharya alludes to Gautam Adani recently acquiring nearly 30 per cent shares in the media company and announcing that he is open to gain another 26 per cent, making him the majority shareholder, without the consent of its founders Prannoy and Radhika Roy.
Here, Acharya hints at Adani having to buy the company to restrict NDTV’s criticism of the government.
Sandeep Adhwaryu takes a dig at Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav who promised to create 10 lakh new jobs after coming to power. Yet, the only jobs he has created are positions for himself and his brother Tej Pratap Yadav in the new Bihar cabinet.
Sajith Kumar lampoons Nitin Gadkari’s recent comments about the government failing to take decisions on time while hinting at his quick removal from the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Parliamentary board earlier this month.
E.P. Unny takes a swipe at the lack of jobs in the country, especially after the news of Bihar Police baton-charging job aspirants at a protest in Patna, while courts keep busy focusing on issues of freebies, and FIFA, football’s world governing body, banning the All India Football Federation (AIFF).