India, March 12 -- A 63-year-old man arrested for opening fire at former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah at a wedding function in Jammu told police he had been planning to kill the veteran leader for nearly two decades, calling it his "personal agenda", officials said on Thursday.

The accused, identified as Kamal Singh Jamwal of Jammu, allegedly fired a shot at Abdullah from point-blank range while the National Conference chief was leaving a marriage function in the Greater Kailash area on Wednesday night. The shot missed its target after members of Abdullah's security detail intervened and quickly overpowered the gunman.

"I wanted to kill Farooq Abdullah for the past 20 years. It was my personal agenda. The weapon is m...