Gujarat polls: Patidars upset; NCP says will contest all 182 seats

New Delhi: The deal struck between Congress and the Hardik Patel-led Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti almost became undone on Monday as the PAAS did not accept the only two seats offered to its members in the Congress first list for Gujarat released on Sunday.

Both Mr Patel and the Congress state leadership rushed in for damage control holding fresh rounds of meetings in which more seats are being mulled for PAAS members. 

Many youth from the PAAS indulged in violence and even clashed with Congress members at various places in the state. By the evening it was clear that there were  differences in PAAS ranks as one of its leaders Lalit Vasoya filed his nomination papers despite PAAS convener Dinesh Bambaniya saying that none from the organisation would do so. 

Trouble brewed between NCP and the Congress too with the former saying that it would contest all the 182 seats in the Gujarat Assembly elections.

“I think it would be better for us to fight on all the seats on our own than in alliance with the Congress,” senior NCP leader and former Union minister Praful Patel said.