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In today’s featured cartoon, Satish Acharya draws on the government’s reaction to the skirmish between Indian and Chinese troops along the Sino-Indian border, while alluding to the surge in Covid-19 cases in China and the theory that the virus originated in China.
While referring to Indian troops commanding strategic heights along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh, Sandeep Adhwaryu comments on how India’s imports from China rose sharply after the 2020 Galwan clash.
Kirtish Bhatt alludes to the exchange of barbs between Indian and Pakistani diplomats, aggravated by Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s remarks likening the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) — ideological parent of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) — to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party. In the illustration, an arms manufacturer is telling his aides: “How dangerous and worrisome this is.. these people are fighting with their tongues.”
Alok Nirantar depicts the opposition in Maharashtra demanding CM Eknath Shinde’s resignation over the Bombay HC’s remarks critical of his decision as a minister in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government to allow the sale of land meant for slum dwellers to individuals.
Sajith Kumar refers to the ruckus in Parliament over Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s controversial remarks and how it may have derailed discussions on pressing matters.