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In today’s featured cartoon, Satish Acharya alludes to BJP MP Ravi Kishan blaming the Congress for him having fathered four children. He made the remarks at an event organised by a news channel just before tabling the population control bill in Parliament.
Sajith Kumar, too, draws on the introduction of the population control bill in Parliament, while suggesting that the anti-Romeo squads set up by the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh could have gone a long way in curbing the country’s growth in population.
Sandeep Adhwaryu, while referring to the AAP’s poll promise of free electricity up to 300 units per month to each household in Gujarat, comments on how the Arvind Kejriwal-led party may have strengthened BJP in the poll-bound state by cutting into the Congress vote.
Manjul pokes fun at the ruling BJP by drawing on accusations levelled by the opposition against the ruling party of furthering communal divide to win elections.
E.P. Unny delivers his take on how the appointment of Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu as chief minister of Himachal Pradesh signals a shift in the Congress’s internal decision-making process in the wake of Mallikarjun Kharge’s election as party president.