Congress MP Shashi Tharoor commented on the controversy surrounding Assam minister Ashok Singhal's "Bihar approves Gobi farming" post when a user tagged him in a response.
Social media users were particularly taken aback by the Assam minister's "gobi farming" statement, which also sparked some online criticism.
In response to Singhal's remark, a user on X named @isaifpatel claimed that a cabinet member was "glorifying the massacre of 116 Muslims to celebrate an election victory."
He tagged Tharoor and requested that the top Congressman get some powerful Hindu leaders to denounce this "normalisation of one of the worst pogroms perpetuated against Bihari Muslims."
The Assam leader's post about "gobi farming" was then indirectly addressed by the Congress MP. According to Tharoor, joint statements are not his responsibility because he is not a community organizer.
He said, "But as a fervent supporter of #InclusiveIndia and a proud Hindu, I can speak for myself and the majority of Hindus I know in saying that neither our nationalism nor our faith requires, justifies, or condones such massacres, let alone applauds them."
Many social media users claimed that the image was connected to the "cauliflower burial case" or the Logain slaughter, which happened in Bihar during the Bhagalpur communal clashes in 1989.
In Logain, a village in the Goradih area of Bhagalpur district, more than 110 Muslims were reportedly slaughtered. Cauliflower saplings were reportedly planted on the site where the dead had been interred.
One user asked the Congress leader if he denounced the "gobi farming" message in response to his statement that his faith does not necessitate, justify, or condone such killings. "But you didn't say you condemn it," the X user remarked. Tharoor said, "That's exactly what I did! I denounced it.
