HYDERABAD: The Telangana Cab Drivers and Owners Association (TCDOA) resumed their agitation against the taxi aggregators on Friday. As many as 35 protestors were taken into preventive custody and released later.
The cab drivers took to Jubliee Hills checkpost and and begged for money from public. They managed to gather Rs 450 within fifteen minutes before they were taken into custody. The protesters now plan to cook food next to Kukatpally forum mall as a part of their protest on Saturday.
“We will beg and with the money that we earn, we will cook food. We want the public to know that working for taxi aggregators have reduced us to the state of beggars,” said Shiva Vulkundakar, state president, TCDOA.
The fresh protest came after the one week long protest called by the union from December 30 to February 5 failed to heed any response from taxi aggregators and state government. The protesters have been demanding the taxi aggregators to get rid of their star rating system, to bring changes in the driver rules during peak hours apart from demanding suspended drivers to be reinstated.