India, Jan. 4 -- A social entrepreneur has called out Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal for his stance on the gig workers issue. Anand Sankar objected to Goyal labelling gig workers as "miscreants" and said that he saw them as the backbone of any business.

The pushback from Sankar came after delivery partners associated with several platforms, including Zomato, declared a strike on December 31. They demanded better pay and working conditions from their employers.

A day after the strike, Goyal announced that "local law enforcement helped keep the small number of miscreants in check", enabling Zomato and Zomato-owned Blinkit to successfully deliver over 75 lakh orders on December 31.

Anand Sankar, the Uttarakhand-based founder of an apple e-tai...