People would give reply to Anna Hazare: NCP

Mumbai: Maharashtra Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Madhukar Pichad on Wednesday said that people would give a fitting reply to Anna Hazare for his comments justifying the slapping.

Pichad was reacting to Hazare's remarks on Tuesday night that a person is left with no option but to slap when his capacity to tolerate corruption runs out.

"When Anna made such comments (in the past), people gave him a reply. We believe in democracy," Pichad said referring to the 74-year-old anti-corruption activist quipping "just one slap?" after a man slapped NCP chief Sharad Pawar in Delhi.

In the municipal council elections in the state last month (after the slapping incident in Delhi), NCP emerged as the single largest party at 195 councils.