The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.
The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately.
In this illustration, Mahamud depicts how BJP’s apathy towards the farming community and its failure to create jobs ensured the party’s defeat in the assembly elections. Here, a farmer fashioned as a woodpecker “pecks” at Modi’s 56-inch chest to reveal its hollowness.
In The Times of India, Sandeep Adhwaryu takes UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s breezy dismissal of the Bulandshahr violence as an “accident”, and uses it to describe the BJP’s massive loss in the elections. According to the cartoonist, people like Adityanath are responsible for BJP’s latest electoral defeat.
Orijit Sen illustrates a farmer enjoying a lotus pakoda to drive home the point that BJP’s inept handling of the farm crisis cost the party dear.
In The Indian Express, Unny wonders if the close contest between the BJP and the Congress in Madhya Pradesh (MP) will have any bearing on the 2019 MP elections as well.
Three-time Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh’s show of strength fails miserably, reflected in the BJP’s loss in the state.
A farmer demands Modi provide his “Mann ki Baat” on why farmers were neglected through his campaign and tenure as Prime Minister.