Mumbai taxis threaten strike if vandals not caught

The unsuspecting targets of mob attacks on Tuesday, Mumbai's taximen have now threatened to go on strike.

The regional clashes in the last two days saw many taxi-drivers targeted and now they have demanded stringent action against the culprits and compensation from the State government after several taxis had been vandalised.

"We are afraid,” said a taxi-driver, Laldhari, who had been beaten up by party workers of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena. They had dragged him out of his taxi, thrashed him and damaged the taxi.

"We suffered such losses. We were in the service of the people,” bemoans another driver, Prahlad Singh, whose taxi was badly mangled when it was caught in a clash between MNS and Samajwadi Party workers during a rally on Sunday.

Dozens of taxi drivers are now up in arms for being targetted and say the incident has left them resentful.

Courtesy:ibnlive.com
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