Ola and Uber drivers further intensified their protests on Thursday after a 46-year-old Ola driver reportedly died by suicide on Wednesday in Nalasopara in Palghar district of Maharashtra. Story/Rajendra B. Aklekar
Cab drivers alleged that the aggregator cab companies were introducing arbitrary policies, leading to huge financial losses and pushing drivers into poverty
They claimed the cab driver took the extreme step as he was unable to pay the EMIs on his cab loan
Earlier, Maharashtra Kamgar Sabha president Keshav Nana Kshirsagar, who is spearheading the agitation, had said, “We have been protesting for our rights and will continue to do so. Today, we are not sitting at Azad Maidan but are spread out across Pune, Mumbai, Nagpur, and other cities, enforcing the strike by stopping cabs and autos. About 90 per cent of cabs were off the roads”
Drivers and workers of Ola, Uber, Zomato, Swiggy, and other aggregator companies have been protesting for the past few days against the ‘injustice’ meted out to them by these platforms. Many protesters took to the streets, forcing passengers to get down from cabs and autos at several locations across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), Pune, Nagpur, and other cities
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