Some of you may have seen Hindutvadi tweets talking about cauliflower farming and wondered 'what is this about?' Well brace yourselves for one heck of a story:
In 1989, the Ram Janambhoomi movement was in full swing, with processions from all over India converging on the site of the Babri Masjid with consecrated bricks to lay the foundations of a temple to the Hindu god Ram.
Three years later, the Babri Masjid was demolished by the same radicals and, last year, Indian Prime Minister Modi inaugurated the new and massive Ram mandir.
Spearheaded by extremist groups like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, many of the 1989 marches deliberately went through Muslim areas. In Bhagalpur, this planned provocation ended in a series of massacres in which over 900 Muslims were killed, amounting to 93 per cent of the total.
the bodies of at least 100 of these were buried in a mass grave over which cauliflowers were planted to hide the atrocity. The Bhagalpur Riots Inquiry Commission found local administration guilty of “incompetence and indifference” and singled out superintendent K.S. Trivedi
as “wholly responsible for the riots that occurred”. Trivedi was transferred but then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi revoked that decision under pressure from the BJP and VHP. You know, the same people basically running India these days.
If you somehow haven’t connected the dots yet, the posting of cauliflowers is in fact a not-so-coded call to massacre Muslims. This is the second time in the last few months this murderous meme has made the rounds. When the movie Chhaava was released, cherry-picking events from
the life of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj to inflame anti-Muslim sentiments in modern Bollywood style, riots took place in Nagpur with the VHP and Bajrang Dal intent upon demolishing the tomb of Mughal ruler Aurangzeb. Here we saw the cauliflower being repeatedly used as well
One account even posted that this time the killers should “have a target … like a minimum of 2-3” Muslims to kill. The tweet to which this was a reply has over 15,000 likes. And that, ladies and gentlemen is how the groundwork for genocide is laid.