Congress leader Dandugula Yadagiri Goud of Old Bowenpally, Secunderabad, who was injured in a shootout on Saturday morning, is now recovering.
In an interview with a news channel on Sunday, Goud said that he had no prior connections to the assailant, but knew the latter's brother-in-law.
The Congress leader said that when the assailant attacked he had rushed to a nearby hospital and hid himself in a bathroom, but the assailant chased him, pointed his gun towards his head and tried to shoot.
"However, I resisted the attack and snatched the gun from the assailant, and called 100. After a while I came out of the bathroom when hospital staff came out," he said.
Meanwhile, doctors said that he was no longer in danger and would be discharged on Monday morning at 10 am.
The doctors also said that the Congress leader had escaped "miraculously" as the bullet from the gun had just scraped through muscles beside his heart.
Yadagiri requested the government to provide him protection as his family felt threatened by the assailant and his brother-in-law.