Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi has sharply criticised Assam Cabinet minister Ashok Singhal for sharing a cauliflower-farming image after the Bihar election results, saying the post represents “a shocking new low in political discourse”.

Singhal had posted a photograph of cauliflower fields with the caption, “Bihar approves gobi farming”. Gogoi said the phrase is “widely associated with the Logain massacre of 1989”, during which over a hundred Muslims were killed in Bhagalpur and “their bodies concealed under cauliflower plantations”.

Gogoi wrote that using such imagery in a political context was “both vulgar and shameful”. He argued that invoking a tragedy of this scale “shows how far some are willing to descend in public life”.

He further alleged that this mindset is encouraged by Chief Mini

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