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No option but to slap when power to tolerate graft runs out: Hazare
PTI | Jan 25, 2012, 12.24AM IST
RALEGAN SIDDHI: In remarks that could stoke a fresh controversy, Gandhian Anna Hazare on
Tuesday night said a person is left with no option other than going for a slap
when his power of tolerance of corruption runs out.
"When a man's power
of tolerance runs out, then whoever is in front of you, if a slap is given, then
the brain is put back in place. That is the only road open now", Hazare told
reporters after watching the Hindi film 'Gali Gali Chor Hai' based on the common
man's fight against corruption.
A special
screening of the movie was held for the anti-graft crusader at his native
village Ralegan Siddhi in the presence of the film's crew.
On November 24
last year, Hazare had sparked a row by appearing to approve of the slapping of
Union minister Sharad Pawar by
a youth in Delhi. He had, however, later condemned the attack on
Pawar.
Anna saw the entire film whose screening ended at around 10pm and
expressed satisfaction over it, Hazare's aide Datta Awari said.
Actors Akshaye
Khanna, Shriya Saran
and Mugdha Godse,
all part of the film, director Rumi Jafferey, and producers Nitin Manmohan and
Sanjay Punamija, were among those who attended the screening held near the
Shantiniketan ground, Awari said.