New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) Thousands of Delhi commuters had a harrowing time on Tuesday as around one lakh drivers of auto-rickshaws and taxis went on an indefinite strike. The Delhi government termed the strike a "sponsored hooliganism" by the Bharatiya Janata Party. The protesters said the indefinite strike was against the increasingly popular app-based taxi services and threatened to sit on a hunger strike from Wednesday. About 90,000 auto-rickshaws and 15,000 traditional yellow-top taxis ply in Delhi. Union leaders said almost all of them joined the crippling protest on Tuesday. Not long ago, the autorickshaw drivers were the mainstay of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party's campaigns and poster...
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