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In today’s featured cartoon, Satish Acharya alludes to the high-voltage campaign in Karnataka where both key players, the Congress and the BJP, have promised freebies despite criticism of ‘revdi (freebie) culture’ by different quarters.
Referring to the BJP’s manifesto, PenPencilDraw alludes to the party’s promise to implement the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Karnataka if voted to power.
Sajith Kumar uses his canvas to depict criticism of athlete-turned-Rajya Sabha P.T. Usha for her remarks on the Jantar Mantar protest by wrestlers demanding action against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over allegations of sexual harassment levelled against him by at least seven women wrestlers.
Kirtish Bhatt gives his take on International Labour Day, celebrated on 1 May each year to highlight workers’ contribution to society, especially the 1886 agitation in Chicago for an 8-hour workday. In the illustration, a man is seen telling a couple, “I don’t know if I’m being called to give me my dues or to congratulate me… but boss is calling.”
R. Prasad, too, comments on May Day (Labour Day) with a depiction of how a conversation over labour laws between a robot and a human being might play out if the former invokes science fiction writer Isaac Asimov‘s three laws of robotics.