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In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu references Indian and Chinese troops clashing in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang sector and implies that perhaps China — which is witnessing massive protests against its ‘zero-Covid’ policy — needs to focus on tensions brewing within the country rather than on border tensions.
Also drawing on the India-China border clash, E.P. Unny pokes fun at India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s statement on the incident in Parliament that was deemed unsatisfactory by the Opposition.
Kirtish Bhatt alludes to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s comment in Parliament about the Opposition being “jealous of India’s growing economy”. The politician in the cartoon suggests the central government could levy a “jealousy tax” to cure such people.
Satish Acharya comments on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement on how political leaders should “focus on sustainable development instead of shortcut politics” and illustrates how the PM indeed took no shortcuts last week on his way to vote during Gujarat Assembly elections in Ahmedabad, turning it into a “political roadshow”.
Nala Ponnappa takes a jibe at the FIFA 2022 World Cup in Qatar and the high rate of “injuries” sustained by players, which has become a topic of discussion.