IN A veiled warning to the ruling Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, Union Minister and BJP leader Narayan Rane, who is locked in a bitter fight with it, on Friday said he knew a lot of things about the party and its leaders and would bring out cases “step by step”.

Without taking anybody’s name, he said he knew who had asked whom to throw acid on brother’s wife.

Rane was speaking at a rally in Ratnagiri district as a part of his ‘Jan Ashirwad Yatra’.

Earlier this week, he had made remarks against Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, which kicked up a row and led to his arrest on Tuesday before his release a few hours later. The episode had sparked off clashes between Shiv Sena and BJP supporters.

“I have worked with them for 39 years, I know a lot of things. I know who asked whom to throw acid on his own brother’s wife. What kind of ‘sanskar’ is it?” the BJP leader said on Friday.

In a veiled attack on Uddhav Thackeray, who is also the President of Shiv Sena, Rane said, “What did one achieve by arresting a Union Minister? I will bring out cases step by step.”

“A Sena boy - Varun Sardesai - had come outside my home (in Mumbai) and threatened me. If he comes next time, he won’t go back,” the former Maharashtra Chief Minister added. Sardesai is a leader of the Yuva Sena, the youth wing of the Shiv Sena. The Yuva Sena workers had protested outside Rane’s bungalow in Mumbai on Tuesday over his remarks.

Meanwhile, CM Uddhav Thackeray and BJP’s Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis were closeted in a private meeting in Mumbai, sparking off political speculation of a possible truce between the now-warring ex-allies. Hitting back, Shiv Sena Lok Sabha group Leader Vinayak Raut -- who wrote to Prime Minister demanding Rane’s dismissal from Union Cabinet -- said, even his party “would unmask Rane” on various issues including suspicious death of his relative Ankush Rane in 2009.