While more than a week has passed since nine Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLAs were inducted into the Maharashtra cabinet under Eknath Shinde, the Shiv Sena on Monday said that Maharashtra cabinet ministry portfolios would be allocated in a matter of hours.

"The allotment will happen in some hours. It could be two hours, 20 hours, or 72 hours, we don`t know that," said State Industries Minister and Shiv Sena leader Uday Samant.