Overview
- During Bihar’s vote count, with the NDA on course to win 202 of 243 seats, Assam Health Minister Ashok Singhal posted a cauliflower-field image captioned “Bihar approves Gobi farming” and has not explained the post.
- Many users said the phrasing referenced the 1989 Bhagalpur violence’s Logain massacre, where victims were buried in fields later planted with cauliflower saplings.
- Assam Congress chief Gaurav Gogoi and TMC MP Saket Gokhale condemned the post, while advocacy accounts described it as glorification of mass violence and an example of coded hate speech.
- Other users argued for a literal reading, claiming it pointed to subsidies and support for cauliflower farmers as a factor in the NDA’s victory.
- Reports noted similar cauliflower imagery used earlier in 2025 during unrest in Nagpur and in a Karnataka BJP meme celebrating killings in Chhattisgarh, suggesting a recurring online motif.