Congress leader Shashi Tharoor is the latest among the bevy of opposition leaders who reacted sharply to the use of 'gobi farming' imagery by an Assam Cabinet minister after Bihar poll results.

Assam Cabinet minister Ashok Singhal, in a post on X on Friday afternoon, had shared a photograph of cauliflower farming with the caption "Bihar approves Gobi farming".

Weighing in after he was tagged by a user in a reply to the original post, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, responding to the post, indirectly replied to the Assam leader’s “gobi farming” post. Tharoor said that he is not a community organiser, so joint statements are not his job.

One of the users, @isaifpatel on X, replied to Singhal’s post, saying that a cabinet minister, no less, is “glorifying the massacre of 116 Muslims to celebra

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