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Former California governor and Hollywood actor Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced that he will soon be implementing Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa’s “Amma Unavagam” all over California. The Amma canteens will sell idlis at 1$ apiece.
“It was amazing to meet her! She took me to one of the unavagams and I had an idli for just a rupee! That’s when I realized that we could have the same thing in California too! Lakhs of Indians in the state, especially in the Bay Area cringe, when they have to go to Saravana Bhavan and pay as much as 7$ for just 2 idlis, with a spoon of chutney and sambar. I went to Saravana Bhavan once with my family and was shell-shocked on seeing the bill! Now I told them I won’t be eating there anymore. They were stunned, they said ‘But you told us you’ll be back. What happened?’ and I said, ‘I lied! Hasta la vista, baby!’ ” Schwarzenegger told The UnReal Times.
President Obama, however, readied his plans for retaliation. “Strategic issues aside, one of the key items on the agenda when Mr.Modi comes down here to meet me, would be the setting up of Namo tea stalls in the United States, at 1$ a cup. We can have that sort of thing implemented here. As a matter of fact, I even told Modi ‘YES WE CAN!’ and he replied ‘Yuss, we will!’. Your move, Arnold!” Obama said.
The announcements have come in for thunderous applause from Indians all over the US. BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, however, accused Arnold of poor governance. “Surely, his ancestors aren’t Hindus. So I can see why he’s doing a bad job,” Swamy said, before having another defamation case filed against him by Jayalalithaa, within minutes of his statement.
