Anna Hazare today tied himself in knots with his reaction to the attack on
Sharad Pawar first appearing to respond with contempt and later condemning it.
"He got slapped! Only one slap?" he said to a group of journalists who broke out in laughter at his reaction. 

But later coming out of the room, he condemned the incident saying such acts of violence were not good. "He (the attacker) may be very angry. This is not good.
Anger is not good. Our Constitution does not tell us to be violent with anyone," Hazare told reporters in Ralegan Siddhi. 

As word about his remarks created ripples, Hazare said he was talking to 200-300 visitors and someone sent a note that Pawar was attacked. 

"I was asking them, was he only slapped and anything else happened to him," he said. After that he spoke to the media and told them it was not a slap on the face of Pawar but a slap on democracy.