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In today’s featured cartoon, Manjul illustrates the game of musical chair between B.S. Yeddyurappa and H.D. Kumaraswamy after the latter’s Congress-JD(S) alliance government looks set to tumble in Karnataka.

Alok Nirantar depicts Karnataka chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy losing his grip on power as BJP leader and former CM B.S. Yeddyurappa tries to run away with the chair.

Taking a dig at the troubled political waters of Karnataka, Sandeep Adhwaryu illustrates how the opportunist alliance of Congress-JD(S) first swallowed the electoral mandate and is now running the risk of being swallowed itself by a bigger fish.

Gopal Shunya comments on the sentencing of Salim Kadar Makrani in Gujarat to 10 years imprisonment over charges of illegal transport and slaughtering of cows.

As over 550 resident doctors went on a flash strike in Delhi over assault by relatives of patients, Hemant Morparia takes a jibe at the suggestion of Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain to increase surveillance in hospitals.

Satish Acharya takes a potshot at Rahul Gandhi’s resignation as Congress chief even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP launches another membership drive.

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