Patna, May 23 -- CPI(ML) General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya said on Saturday that the BJP has not only removed Nitish Kumar from power but has also overturned his entire political discourse and model of governance.

Addressing the media in Patna, he alleged that in Bihar, attempts are now being made to replace "good governance" with a model based on bulldozers and encounters, development with displacement, and communal harmony with hatred, mob lynching, and violence.

He further claimed that repressive actions against Dalits, the poor, minorities, women, students, youth, and workers were being made the "new normal."Dipankar Bhattacharya said that the bulldozer had become a symbol of BJP rule. He alleged that bulldozers were not being u...