Bengaluru: Senior Congress leader K Siddaramaiah on Tuesday alleged that the usual crowd from the Indira Canteens here has been missing ever since the BJP-government in Karnataka decided to make people pay for food.
In a video message shared with the media, Siddaramaiah claimed that he visited three Indira canteens in RT Nagar in the city in the afternoon and noticed that the usual crowd was missing from there.
"When food was distributed free of cost, people used to throng the canteen but now people are not seen. The reason is people don't have money," Siddaramaiah rued.
"Earlier, 700 plates of food were sold a day, but now only around 150," he quoted the canteen staff as saying. The Congress leader recalled that he recently wrote a letter to the state government to provide free food until the situation normalises.
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