Highlights Gadkari was addressing a public rally in West Bengal's Joypur He said nothing can stop 'Lotus' from winning New Delhi: Taking a dig at ruling Trinamool Congress' supremo Mamata Banerjee, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday (March 3) asserted that the Bharatiya Janata Party is not an outsider in West Bengal. In fact, he said, the origin of the BJP is associated with the state. Addressing a public rally in West Bengal's Joypur, Gadkari invoked Jan Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee, who was born in the state. "Mamata Ji says that we are outsiders. BJP was formed based on the ideology of Jan Sangh, whose founder and our inspiration Syama Prasad Mookerjee was born in West Bengal. How then are we outsiders?" Gadkari was quoted as saying by ANI.