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> It's worth noting that you can get free food in many places in India (and in some cities in Europe and the US), via the Sikh langar[2] which is funded by charity and volunteers.

Incidentedly, Indira Gandhi (After whom the Indira canteen is named) was assassinated by Sikhs. Does the naming of the canteen have anything to do with the assassination ?

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Not a Sikh but I don't believe these are related. As per wikipedia "Langar (Punjabi: ਲੰਗਰ) (kitchen) is the term used in Sikhism for the community kitchen in a Gurdwara where a free meal is served to all the visitors, without distinction of religion, caste, gender, economic status or ethnicity." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langar_(Sikhism)

The assasination of Indira Gandhi was related a separatist movement who wanted Punjab to secede from the rest of India (while Indira Gandhi was Prime Minister)

Karnataka is governed by the Congress Party of which Indira Gandhi was the leader (and Prime Minister of India). I think that's the only connection.

I doubt the naming has anything to do with it. It is a nice initiative and independent of any attempts to tie it to any history and good to see initiative to see happening in other areas of India.

Sikhs from the Punjab province of India have a free community kitchen for anyone from any background to break bread together, each day.

It is a vegetarian meal designed to express and practice equality among all of humanity and was in part meant to abolish the caste system.

Anyone can go into any Sikh place and have a free meal anywhere in the world. I don't have the link handy but it works out to a few million meals a day around a the world for free, paid for solely by donations.

Congress party cannot do such things. Congress is ruling Punjab. Number of people having food in langar run by Sikhs is not common in Karnataka anyway. So canteen as anti-sikh symbol is not possible.

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