MUMBAI: Delimitation of constituencies could cause disputes over three or four seats in the Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) pre-poll alliance for the ensuing Assembly elections. A similar dispute had arisen during the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections among the old allies.

Sena working President Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday told journalists at a press conference at his residence that the party has decided to contest the elections with its two decade old ally BJP, but the final announcement over seat sharing would be made after detailed discussions.

According to sources, the saffron alliance parties have decided to continue their old seat-sharing formula with Sena contesting on 171 seats leaving BJP 117 seats.

“We have decided to go together, but we have yet to finalize on certain seats. Due to delimitation, we need to study which party could have a strong hold in which constituency. Accordingly discussions would be held and the announcement would be made soon,” said Thackeray.

Meanwhile in another development, Federal Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has blamed the Sena-BJP alliance for power woes in the state.

Coming down heavily on the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance for the power crisis in Maharashtra, Shinde on Saturday said that when the saffron combine was in power from 1995-99, they did not ‘add a single mega-watt.’

“The opposition must understand what they have done when they were in power in Maharashtra,” Shinde, who is Congress’ campaigning committee chief told journalists during his visit to Mumbai.

“They have not added a single unit,” he said.

“Some even talked about throwing out projects,” he said, referring to the controversial Dabhol Power Project, and said that when the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) came to power at the Centre, they revived the project in 2006.

When pointed out that in the 10 years of rule the Democratic Front has failed to revive the power sector, Shinde said: “At one time there was a power deficit of over 4,000 MW. Today, it has come down to 2,000 MW.”

On repeated questions about power addition, he said that two units at Paras have been commissioned.

“Moreover, we have planned for more power generation and in the times to come, there would be a visible change,” he said.

He also took a dig at the BJP, saying that the main opposition party is in a bad shape.

“Today, BJP is in shambles. There is tremendous infighting going on. See what they have done to Jaswant Singh. You cannot continue politics in the name of religion and caste,” he said.