Patna, April 22 -- Alleging that the Bharatiya Janata Party can never win elections alone in India, Independent MP from Purnia, Pappu Yadav, on Tuesday said that the BJP cannot challenge West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the elections and cannot form the government in the state.

"Iss janam mein BJP Bengal mein success nahi ho sakti, Mamata Banerjee ko challenge nahi kar sakti (BJP cannot succeed in Bengal in this life, it cannot challenge Mamata Banerjee). The BJP can never win elections alone in India. They can win only by keeping a gun on someone's shoulder...Wherever the BJP will not form the government, it wants to rule under President's rule," Pappu Yadav told reporters in Patna.

This comes after the BJP's claims that i...