Overview
- After the NDA won 202 of 243 seats in Bihar, Assam Health Minister Ashok Singhal posted a cauliflower-field photo captioned “Bihar approves Gobi farming.”
- Social media users and rights advocates condemned the post as glorifying or invoking the Bhagalpur riots’ Logain massacre.
- Accounts of the 1989 violence detail bodies buried in Logain and covered with cauliflower and cabbage saplings, with multiple convictions recorded in 2007.
- Singhal has not explained or apologized for the post, and no disciplinary action has been reported against him.
- Similar cauliflower imagery surfaced earlier in 2025 during unrest in Nagpur and in a Karnataka BJP meme about Maoist killings in Chhattisgarh.