Bengaluru: Namma Appaji canteens soon
At the Namma Appaji canteen you can have two idlis and one uddina vada for merely Rs 5, coffee and tea for Rs 5 a glass and a meal of rice.
Bengaluru: With the elections to the state assembly looming in 2018, a “canteen war” is threatening to break out over the next few weeks between the ruling Congress and JD(S) as they vie to bag the populist vote.
While the state government has announced its plans to start ‘Indira Canteens’ to provide affordable quality food to the poor of Karnataka beginning August 15, Independence Day, JD(S) MLC T.A. Sarawana has come up with the idea of opening a similar ‘Namma Appaji Canteen’ in Basavanagudi in the city in a month in a show of loyalty to his party supremo H.D. Deve Gowda.
He eventually hopes to open his canteens in all 28 Assembly constituencies of the city and the remaining constituencies across the state. “I want to provide hygienic and tasty food at affordable cost to people all over Karnataka. Each assembly segment will have one canteen and I will bear the cost of running them all,” Mr Sarawana told DC.
At the Namma Appaji canteen you can have two idlis and one uddina vada for merely Rs 5, coffee and tea for Rs 5 a glass and a meal of rice, sambar and ragi mudde (millet ball), a staple food of south Karnataka, for just Rs 10.
To begin with, the canteens will open at 8 am and close by 3 pm. But their timings could be extended till 8 pm or 9 pm depending on the response, the MLC reveals.