India, Feb. 8 -- Several cab drivers associated with app-based platforms such as Ola, Uber and Rapido, along with conventional taxi drivers, gathered at Jantar Mantar on Saturday to protest over pricing issues, lack of policy uniformity and the increasing use of private vehicles as taxis. The protest led to longer wait times and higher fares across parts of Delhi-NCR, with commuters reporting cancellations and surge pricing.

Drivers' unions, including the Rashtriya Driver Sanyukta Morcha Samiti and the All Delhi Auto Taxi Congress Union, participated in the demonstration. In a mid-January statement calling for the protest, the former said the strike aimed to highlight the "arbitrariness and exploitation of drivers by aggregator companies...