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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar spotlights the election of veteran Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge as the first non-Gandhi president of the party in 24 years. Kharge swept the internal elections, receiving 7,897 votes against his challenger, Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor, who polled 1,072 votes.
E.P. Unny comments on the Gujarat government’s affidavit in the Supreme Court that revealed that the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had in July this year granted its concurrence to the release of 11 men convicted in the Bilkis Bano case.
Satish Acharya, too, delivers his take on the role of the central government in the release of 11 men convicted in the Bilkis Bano case on the grounds that they had served 15 years of their life sentences and their “behaviour was found to be good”.
R. Prasad alludes to Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan’s warning to state ministers that he would not hesitate to remove them if they continue to lower the dignity of Raj Bhavan in the backdrop of a Bill passed by the state assembly that seeks to curtail the governor’s powers in appointing vice-chancellors to Kerala’s 13 state universities.
Kirtish Bhatt depicts the BJP-TMC scuffle over BCCI’s decision not to extend the tenure of former cricketer Sourav Ganguly as president. In the illustration, a man tells his wife: “Cricket has many different formats. Test, one day, 20-20 and politics”.