Rahul Gandhi Inaugurates Indira Canteen In Karnataka, Then Gets It Confused With Amma Canteen

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi gives enough opportunities to be trolled on social media. The leader has once again done something that will activate trolls on the internet. While inaugurating a low-cost eatery, Named after his grandmother and former PM Indira Gandhi, he called it Amma Canteen, which is named after former Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa.

He made a short speech congratulating the state government but had several faux pas moments - the most noticeable were calling the 'Indira Canteen' as the 'Amma Canteen'.

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Rahul Gandhi commended the Siddaramaiah government for reaching out to the poor and downtrodden with the affordable food at canteens program - named after his grandmother and India's first and only woman Prime Minister.

But the 47-year-old floundered when - in a part of his speech - termed the program as Amma Canteen. "Every citizen of Karnataka, under the Siddaramaiah government should feel he won't go hungry. That is the vision of the Amma...Indira Canteen." he said.

Amma Canteens were started in Tamil Nadu by the state's former CM and former AIADMK head J Jayalalithaa.

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While Rahul Gandhi did immediately correct himself, his entire speech was ridden with several similar errors.

"The chief minister has mentioned to me that Bangalore is just the beginning. Soon, over the next couple of months, every single city in Bangalore, every single poor person in every single city in Bangalore will feel that in the state of Karnataka, under Siddaramaiah government, 'I simply cannot go hungry" he said. Bengaluru is the capital city of the state.

He also twice almost referred to the canteens as campaigns before correcting himself.

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Nonetheless, he did outline that while breakfast would cost Rs 5, lunch and dinner would be served at Indira Canteen for Rs 10. "It is our intention that the quality of food, the cleanliness in this canteen is the same as the most expensive restaurants in Bangalore."