NEW DELHI: To mark the second anniversary of Narendra Modi government, the BJP means to raise a laugh at UPA’s expense. Forty-four caricatures comparing the UPA II tenure to the NDA regime will be used by the party and its online warriors to hardsell the NDA’s achievements, particularly Modi’s initiatives.
One cartoon shows Manmohan Singh on a road-roller, with blurbs on corruption, bribery and the speed of road construction to be 2 km per day. In comparison, Modi is constructing roads at 18 km per day.
BJP has cast its net into history to hit out at the bete noire of the day, Jawaharlal Nehru. A sketch shows him welcoming a UN team to monitor Jammu and Kashmir in 1949, while another shows Modi shutting down the UN office in 2014 saying there was no need as J&K is a part of India.
Another shows a dejected Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh, with a gag on relief material for quake-hit Nepal being delayed as Rahul Gandhi is yet to flag it off. Modi does better in the next cartoon; he sent material within six hours of the tragedy. The cartoons are signed by ‘Crazy Cub’.
They also showcase Modi as superman— outrunning presidents of other countries in a 100-metre race, rescuing citizens from conflict zones from a helicopter, and saving a nosediving Air India with Manmohan riding it, saying it may shut down. Next, Modi is carrying Air India with a blurb announcing that the airlines is in profit. The cartoons also feature Nitin Gadkari, Smriti Irani, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Suresh Prabhu.