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The NDA won Bihar by a landslide victory on 14 November. One strong force that preceded their win: a digital campaign riding on anti-Muslim hate messaging disguised as anti-infiltrator rhetoric on the heels of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state.

Not only this, shortly after the trends predicted a win for the BJP, Ashok Singhal, Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Irrigation in Assam posted on X, "Bihar approves Gobi farming," alluding to the Bhagalpur riots of 1989.

Back then, in Logain village, hundreds of dead bodies of Muslims were covered with cauliflower plantation to hide the evidence post the violence.

Bihar approves Gobi farm

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