HYDERABAD, India (AP) — Indian police say a popular regional politician has been attacked by a young man while waiting to board a flight at an airport in southern India and suffered a minor cut in his arm.
They say the youth asked to take a selfie with Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, chief of the YSR Congress party, on Thursday and then took out a sharp object and attacked him in Visakhapatnam, a city in Andhra Pradesh state.
Reddy's security guards overpowered the attacker and handed him over to police.
Police say a political rivalry appeared to be the motive for the attack. Reddy quit the Indian National Congress and formed a regional group in 2010. His father was a Congress party leader before he died in a helicopter crash in 2009.
