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In today’s featured cartoon, Manjul alludes to former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Kumar Vishwas’ allegations against AAP supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, after which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led central government granted him round-the-clock ‘Y’ category security. Vishwas had claimed Kejriwal wouldn’t hesitate to ally with Khalistani separatists to be in power, which the latter dismissed as “laughable”.
Alok Nirantar refers to Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao’s meeting with Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray at the latter’s residence Sunday in an attempt to stitch together a united front of opposition parties against the BJP-led government at the Centre. BJP leader Kirit Somaiyya, who keeps having run-ins with Thackeray’s Shiv Sena over allegations of corruption, asks if the Enforcement Directorate (ED) should be called in against KCR.
Alluding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s comment in 2019 that those indulging in violence during protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act could be identified “by their clothes”, Sajith Kumar takes a jibe at the backlash Defence Minister Rajnath Singh faced during a campaign rally in Gonda, Uttar Pradesh. His speech was interrupted by men shouting slogans demanding jobs in the Army.
Sandeep Adhwaryu takes a dig at the grant of bail to Ashish Mishra — the prime accused in the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence case and son of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra ‘Teni’ — and the furlough from jail granted to rape and murder convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, chief of the Dera Sacha Sauda religious group in Punjab. The two were released this month as Uttar Pradesh and Punjab went to the polls. The reference is to the song ‘Haan jab tak hai jaan‘ from the film Sholay.
Nala Ponnappa mocks the revelations about the former CEO of the National Stock Exchange, Chitra Ramkrishna, who took the guidance of a faceless ‘yogi’ in the Himalayas in making business decisions during her tenure between 2013 and 2016.