Overview
- During Bihar’s vote count on Friday, Assam health minister Ashok Singhal posted a cauliflower-field photo captioned “Bihar approves Gobi farming,” and the NDA later won decisively.
- Many users and commentators interpreted the post as an allusion to the Logain massacre, where victims of the 1989 Bhagalpur violence were buried and cauliflower saplings were reportedly planted over the graves.
- Assam Congress chief Gaurav Gogoi called the post vulgar and shameful, and TMC MP Saket Gokhale alleged such messaging has tacit approval from top BJP leadership, claims not addressed by officials.
- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor publicly condemned the post, saying that neither his faith nor nationalism justifies or condones such massacres.
- Singhal has offered no clarification, and journalists note earlier 2025 instances where cauliflower imagery surfaced in right-wing online discourse, reinforcing concerns about coded communal signaling.