Kolkata: Zomato delivery boys quit job protesting Chinese investment in company
Calling for a boycott of Zomato due to its Chinese funding, about a dozen delivery personnel burnt the company’s uniform for delivery agents outside the Behala police station in south Kolkata.
Amid growing chorus to boycott Chinese companies, a group of delivery personnel working with food delivery app Zomato have decided to tender mass resignations opposing Chinese investment in the company.
Requiring a blacklist of the application based food conveyance administration, around twelve conveyance staff consumed the organization’s uniform for conveyance operators outside the Behala police headquarters in south Kolkata. With the Indian tricolor close by, the conveyance men raised mottos like “Chinese specialist Zomato leave India!”.
“Zomato has tied up with Chinese organization Alibaba to run its activities. Today we have stopped Zomato and we trust buyers will likewise blacklist this organization,” said Dipankar Kanjilal, one of the dissidents.
Inquired as to whether the choice will imperil their own vocations, the nonconformists said they were “ready to remain hungry for the country however won’t enjoy the foul play”.
“The Chinese are murdering our warriors utilizing our cash! On the off chance that our troopers are undependable, how might we be sheltered? So we will blacklist Zomato. 50-60 of us have uninstalled the application today,” said another conveyance specialist.
Headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, Zomato is a food conveyance new business established by Pankaj Chaddah and Deepinder Goyal in 2008.
As per reports, Ant Financial (an auxiliary of Chinese online business goliath Alibaba) has a 14.7 percent stake in the organization subsequent to siphoning in $210 million out of 2018.
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