India, June 10 -- Prakash Mahajan, brother of the late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, on Monday posted on his Facebook page that he was being threatened by former union minister and BJP MP Narayan Rane.

Mahajan, who belongs to the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), claimed that some political workers were making abusive calls to him and threatening him with dire consequences. Mahajan has written to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis seeking protection, and said that Rane should be held responsible if anything untoward were to happen to him.

The scrap between Mahajan and the Ranes began when Rane's younger son and BJP minister Nitesh Rane poked fun at the talk of an alliance between the Shiv Sena (UBT) and the MNS. The two parties have been at ...