New Delhi, Dec. 31 -- Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Raghav Chadha has offered to mediate between companies and gig workers amid a strike call by gig workers' unions on New Year's Eve, 31 December. Stressing that the delivery persons should be treated with dignity and not as item-delivering robots with unrealistic delivery expectations, Chadha said the gig workers are the "backbone of billion-dollar companies and invisible wheels driving the Digital India initiative".

Raghav Chadha said, "I am willing to mediate between the companies and gig workers. They deserve dignity and respect at work. Delivery boys should be treated with dignity. They are not robots or bonded labourers but fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons. Their mental and physical...