BJP’s cartoon attacks on the Aam Aadmi Party By Deepak Parvatiyar February 6, 2015 It may sound presumptuous but it is somewhat less saddening that RK Laxman is no more to see cartooning hitting rock bottom. Had he been alive, the great cartoonist might not have withstood the degradation of an art to the extent it took a shift from satire to acerbic personal attacks, this election season in Delhi. Consider the “cartoons” from the Bharatiya Janata Party’s stable. In one such cartoon, the Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal was ridiculed for crying for clean politics while at the same time accepting black money for campaigning. But this was not enough. Another cartoon even depicted Kejriwal’s children in a bad taste and even showed Gandhian activist Anna Hazare in a framed photograph with a garland around it. The AAP chief had tweeted then, “Nathuram Godse killed Gandhiji on this day in 1948. BJP has killed Anna in its ad today…” Not many even within the BJP co
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