Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar was today slapped by by Harvinder Singh - The Slap King at a public function claiming he was angry with corruption and price rise.

71-year-old Pawar, who went to a literary function at a public auditorium on Parliament Street, was slapped by Harvinder Singh, a transporter in his thirties who had assaulted former telecom minister Sukhram outside Rohini Court on Saturday after he was sentenced in a corruption case.

"I came planned to the event to slap the minister," Singh told reporters who had gone to cover the literary function.

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