New Delhi, Feb. 7 -- Ride-hailing app-based transport workers held a protest at Jantar Mantar on Saturday as gig worker unions called for an all-India breakdown, demanding government intervention to fix minimum base fares and roll back certain policy guidelines.

During the protest, Telangana GIG and Platform Workers Union Founder President Shaik Salauddin said the union had written to Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari with two key demands. These include the withdrawal of guidelines that allow private vehicles to be used for commercial purposes and the notification of minimum base fares for app-based transport services.

Speaking to ANI, Salauddin said, "We have two major demands from the Ministry of Transport and Nitin Gadkari. The ...