He also saw no impact of Arvind Kejriwal's AAP in the Lok Sabha polls.
NCP is the second largest constituent of the Congress-led UPA.
Congress had downplayed Patel's "options are open" warning noting that the two parties are in alliance mode for the past 15 years and some tough bargaining was bound to be there at the time of seat sharing.
Patel had barely days earlier urged the political class to accept the judicial pronouncement regarding Narendra Modi on Gujarat riots, remarks which were seen as a sign of NCP going soft on the BJP PM candidate. The comment came even as Pawar slammed media reports that he met Modi as "baseless and mischievous".
NCP is in alliance with the Congress and sharing power in Maharashtra since 1999 though Pawar parted ways with Congress on the issue of Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin.
NCP is part of the UPA at the Centre for the past 10 years.
