Overview
- During Bihar’s vote count on Friday, Ashok Singhal posted a cauliflower field photo on X with the caption “Bihar approves Gobi farming.”
- Assam Congress chief Gaurav Gogoi labeled the post “vulgar and shameful,” and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor condemned any glorification of such massacres.
- Trinamool MP Saket Gokhale alleged tacit approval by top BJP leadership, while Ashok Singhal offered no explanation and neither the PMO nor Himanta Biswa Sarma commented.
- The image is widely associated with the 1989 Logain massacre in Bhagalpur, where over 100 Muslims were killed and buried under fields later planted with cauliflowers; multiple convictions were secured in 2007.
- Observers noted prior 2025 uses of cauliflower imagery by right‑wing handles, including posts during Nagpur violence and a Karnataka BJP meme about Maoist killings.