MADURAI: Unidentified persons assaulted Communist Party of India (Marxist) MLA N. Nanmaran near his residence at Ponnagaram here on Wednesday night. The MLA, representing the Madurai East Assembly Constituency, was treated at the Government Rajaji Hospital for cut injuries on Thursday afternoon.

“It is an attack out of political enmity,” Mr. Nanmaran said. He was returning home around 11.45 p.m. after completing election work when the attack took place.

“I was trying to take my moped into the house when two persons, riding a motorbike, came from behind and hit me with some weapon and escaped.” Since it was late in the night no one was there on the street to chase the culprits.