Hours after clashes were reported between the PAAS and Congress workers, the National Congress Party leader said the party wanted to contest the Gujarat Assembly polls singlehandedly. 

"Our party will be fielding candidates for all the 182 constituency seats" NCP spokesperson Yusuf Parmar told IANS today. 

NCP leader Praful Patel said the party to form an alliance with Congress but it "did not seem serious and kept on delaying." The grand old party in Gujarat has been in alliance with the NCP in the past. The NCP's announcement comes after Congress, which is trying hard to form an alliance with Hardik Patel-led PAAS in the run-up to state elections, announced its first list of 77 candidates on Sunday.