Anna Hazare Slap

• Congress attacks Hazare for justifying slapping

  Congress today hit out at Anna Hazare saying he should not call himself Gandhian because he justified slapping.

• No option but to slap when power to tolerate graft runs out: Anna Hazare

  In remarks that could stoke a fresh controversy, anti-graft activist Anna Hazare on Tuesday evening said a person is left with no option other than going for a slap when his power of tolerance of corruption runs out.

• Sharad Pawar retaliates after Anna's 'just-one-slap' blog

  Union minister Sharad Pawar has reacted sharply to Anna Hazare's comments about the attack that saw Mr Pawar being slapped last month at a public function. "In the recent past, Shri Hazare by supporting the physical assault on me at a public function has given a new definition to the concept Gandhism and non-violence," said the minister. He added...

• Anna blogs about the "just one slap" controversy

  One youth named Harvinder Singh slapped the Agriculture Minister of India, Sharad Pawar, and this has caused a lot of hue and cry amongst some people. Someone asked me that Sharad Pawar has been slapped on his face by a youth. I said - Just one slap? And the people held the person who asked this question more guilty than the person who had actually...

• NCP workers clash with Anna supporters in Ralegan Siddhi

  Angry over Anna Hazare's statement on the attack on Union Minister Sharad Pawar yesterday, NCP supporters today staged a protest at the Gandhian's native village in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district and clashed with his supporters.

• Anna's doublespeak: Condemns attack on Pawar, but says 'why only one slap?'

  In a classic case of doublespeak, veteran anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare today, in response to the attack on Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, first reacted with sarcasm and then hurriedly condemned it.