Jagdish Mali

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Speaking at the start of the Monsoon Session of Parliament. May this session witness productive discussions that strengthen India's development journey. https://t.co/v25Vg62apy

[Jagdish Mali @Thought__lover]

Good dad this issue was finally raised in parliament- but strict action must follow now, not just discussion.

[Raghav Chadha @raghav_chadha]

Biggest Health Crisis in India 🚨
FOOD ADULTERATION - खाने में मिलावट

👉Urea in Milk
👉Oxytocin in Vegetables
👉Caustic Soda in Paneer
👉Brick powder in Spices
👉 Yellow dye in Honey
👉 Steroids in Poultry
👉 Detergent in ice cream

We all are consuming slow poison!

Raised this serious issue in Parliament today. Watch my intervention.

[Jagdish Mali @Thought__lover]

@raghav_chadha राघव चड्ढा जी ने लगातार यह मुद्दा उठाया, उनका आभार।

[Jagdish Mali @Thought__lover]

Yah Jeet har delivery partner ki hai - respect finally matters!

[Raghav Chadha @raghav_chadha]

Congratulations to all Gig Workers and Delivery Partners. There is good news for you.

Central Government’s draft Social Security Rules are the first step towards recognition, protection and dignity for your work.

Even though the Platforms (Zomato, Swiggy, Blinkit, etc.) chose not to listen to your voices, the people of this country and the government did.

This is a small win,
but an important win.
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सभी Gig Workers और Delivery Partners को बधाई. आप सबके लिए good news है.

केंद्र सरकार के ड्राफ्ट Social Security Rules आपके काम की पहचान, सुरक्षा और सम्मान की दिशा में पहला कदम हैं.

आपकी आवाज़ भले ही इन कंपनियों (Zomato, Swiggy, Blinkit आदि) ने न सुनी हो, लेकिन देश की जनता और सरकार ने ज़रूर सुनी.

यह आपकी एक छोटी जीत है,
लेकिन एक महत्वपूर्ण जीत है.

[Jagdish Mali @Thought__lover]

@raghav_chadha सोशल सिक्योरिटी कोई दान नहीं, अधिकार है।

[Jagdish Mali @Thought__lover]

Police ke sahare chalne wali vyavastha tikau nahin Hoti.

[Raghav Chadha @raghav_chadha]

Delivery partners across India went on strike demanding basic dignity, fair pay, safety, predictable rules and social security. The response from the Platform was to call them "miscreants" and turn a labour demand into a law & order narrative. That is not just insulting, it is dangerous. Workers asking for fair pay are not criminals. And if your system needs police to keep running on its biggest day, that is not proof the system works. That is an admission it doesn't. If you needed police to have your workers stay on the road, they're not employees. They're hostages with helmets.

I am glad my intervention in Parliament has started a nationwide debate. Let me be clear. I am pro-business and pro-startups. I have stood for innovation and entrepreneurship in Parliament. India needs its builders and risk-takers. I will always back them. But I will never back exploitation dressed as progress. I am pro-industry, not pro-exploitation. Success cannot be built by squeezing the last ounce out of the people doing the hardest work.

And apparently asking for fair pay is politics now. Strange how everything becomes 'political agenda' the moment it threatens margins or stock prices.

Now, the favourite defence: "If the system were unfair, why do so many people work in it?"

By that logic, zamindari was not exploitative because it ran for two centuries. Bonded labour was fair because people kept showing up. Every extractive system in history made the same argument. "They're still here, aren't they? Must be working."

When one day’s income decides rent, electricity, or a child’s school fee, logging in on a strike day is not approval, it is survival. It is desperation. People remain trapped when better options do not exist. And please don’t sell people a distant dream to justify a present injustice. Promising that workers’ children will do better someday is not an answer to exploitation today.

Record order numbers do not measure dignity. Lakhs of orders is a business metric, not a moral one. And it should make anyone pause when those numbers are celebrated on a night that is already known for higher-than-usual payouts compared to a regular day, while Platforms also credits ‘police action’ for keeping things under control. When scale is being applauded under those conditions, the obvious question is what is being counted and what is being ignored. That is a model being held up by pressure, not trust.

This is also about Road Safety. Incentive structures that reward speed and punish delay put everyone at risk. Not just the delivery partner on the bike. The pedestrian crossing the street. The family in the car next to them. When we celebrate a 10-minute delivery, we should ask who pays the price when something goes wrong.

Yes, technology can optimise logistics. But technology cannot replace transparency, protections and due process. A system where pay hides behind formulas no worker can see. Where incentives change overnight without notice. Where you are penalised for rain, traffic, app crashes. Where your livelihood can be switched off with one click and no hearing. That is not flexibility. That is control without accountability.

If anyone broke the law that day, act against them. But do not use a few incidents to brand protesting workers as “miscreants” and crush a legitimate demand for fair pay and dignity. Silencing questions by insulting the people asking them, is not leadership. The answer to criticism is reform and accountability.

I did not want to write a post this long. I would have preferred a healthy discussion on pay, safety, and protections. What came instead was coordinated noise. Within hours, identical talking points flooded our feeds. Board members who never discuss labour discovered social media. Influencers with no history of caring about workers began posting defences. As if someone had sent out a script. I have been in this long enough to recognise a paid campaign when I see one.😉

To those in the Platforms making personal calls and sending messages requesting for tweets in their favour: your efforts reached me before your tweets did. Many of those people are friends. They told me everything. Choose your contact list more carefully next time.

Also, the sad part is that the PR agencies got paid. Influencers got paid. Hashtags got bought. The only people still waiting for fair payment are the ones delivering your orders.

And when the arguments ran out, the attacks turned personal, on my family and my lifestyle. That is when you know the platform is panicking. When someone runs out of answers, they reach for insinuations. My life is transparent. I wonder if the same can be said for the algorithms that decide a worker's pay.

Do not waste time debating my lifestyle. Focus on improving the lifestyle of gig workers. I have been fortunate and that’s exactly why I will use my position to raise these demands. If we have been given more, our duty is to demand fairness for those who are given less.

Stop polarising a basic issue. The question is simple. Will we build India’s growth on dignity and safety, or on pressure and insecurity?

I want Indian startups to scale. I am not here for agitation or disruption. I want these businesses to grow leaps and bounds, but not on the backs of the people who keep them running.

As I said in Parliament, gig workers are the invisible wheels of the Indian economy. Platforms did not scale on code alone. They scaled on human labour. Real progress is simple and measurable. Fair and transparent pay, safety and insurance, social security, predictable rules and a grievance system with real due process. Progress is not how fast we deliver. Progress is whether the people who make the system run can live with dignity.

This is a fight I will see through. In Parliament. Outside Parliament. Until there is accountability. The workers who built these platforms order by order, kilometre by kilometre, deserve better than to be called “miscreants" for asking to be treated as human beings.

Jai Hind. Jai Bharat.🇮🇳

[Jagdish Mali @Thought__lover]

@raghav_chadha Sacchai yah hai ki hamara intent comfort inke pasine se Banta hai aur waqt a gaya hai ki Zomato swiggi Jaise company ne partner kehna band Karen aur asali Partner ki tarah treat Karen

[Jagdish Mali @Thought__lover]

@raghav_chadha Nice work

[Jagdish Mali @Thought__lover]

This is about dignity of labour not charity glad you reached it.
@raghav_chadha

[Raghav Chadha @raghav_chadha]

I sat down with delivery riders of Zomato, Swiggy, Blinkit etc. This is not a rant. This is a conversation with those whose lives power our everyday comfort.

It’s tragic that millions of delivery riders who helped build instant-commerce companies into what they are today, are now forced to protest just to be heard.

These platforms didn’t succeed because of algorithms alone. They succeeded because of human sweat and labour.

It’s time companies start treating riders as human beings, not disposable data points.

The gig economy cannot become a guilt-free exploitation economy.

[Jagdish Mali @Thought__lover]

Nice

[Pappu Saxena @pappusaxena56]

जब सोशल मीडिया पर साझा की गई पीड़ा पर राज्यसभा सांसद खुद संज्ञान लेते हैं, तब भरोसा बनता है। राघव चड्ढा की यह पहल गिग वर्कर्स के सम्मान और अधिकारों की दिशा में अहम संकेत है।
@raghav_chadha

[Jagdish Mali @Thought__lover]

Good step by Raghav Chadda

[Darsh Yadav @Darshh_Yadav7]

राज्यसभा सांसद राघव चड्ढा ने लंच पर डिलीवरी पार्टनर से बातचीत कर उसकी ज़मीनी परेशानियाँ सुनीं। यह औपचारिक मुलाकात नहीं, बल्कि ���न आवाज़ों को जगह देने की कोशिश थी जो अक्सर अनसुनी रह जाती हैं।
@raghav_chadha

[Jagdish Mali @Thought__lover]

डिजिटल कंटेंट आज लाखों लोगों का स्व-रोजगार है। मेहनत से बनाया गया कंटेंट एक कॉपीराइट स्ट्राइक से हट जाता है। राज्यसभा सांसद राघव चड्ढा ने संसद में यह गंभीर मुद्दा उठाया। सरकार ��ो ऐसी नीति बननी चाहिए जो कंटेंट क्रिएटर को सुरक्षा दें।
@raghav_chadha

[Jagdish Mali @Thought__lover]

आपके मुद्दे बहुत सटीक और आम जनमानस के तरफ से होती है, धन्यवाद आप ऐसे ही निरंतर मुद्दे उठाते रहे।

[Raghav Chadha @raghav_chadha]

TOLL is taking a big TOLL on the people of India.

Today, I laid bare the daily suffering caused by this Legalised Loot.

My demand is simple: If there is a delay of more than 5 minutes at a Toll Plaza, NO TOLL should be charged.

[Jagdish Mali @Thought__lover]

Drivers ko izzat dilane ka prayas- dhanyavaad.
Thank you for defending dignity.
#DiginityAtWork"
@raghav_chadha

[Jagdish Mali @Thought__lover]

Great vision from PM Modi, respected by Japan's top minds.....

[IANS @ians_india]

Watch: Japanese Nobel Laureate Takaaki Kajita lauded PM Modi’s vision for Indo-Japan collaboration in science and technology, praising India’s rise in the Global Innovation Index from 91 in 2014 to 38 in 2024. Speaking at a Tokyo conference hosted by Chandigarh University and University of Tokyo, Kajita and 20 Japanese scientists signed a resolution supporting India-Japan research and innovation partnership

[Jagdish Mali @Thought__lover]

@satnamsandhuchd Hiroshima bahut hi dardnak hadsa tha

[Jagdish Mali @Thought__lover]

Vishva ko Shanti ka sandesh Dena bahut jaruri hai

[Jagdish Mali @Thought__lover]

@TheRudraFdn @raoarun03 Happy navratri

[Jagdish Mali @Thought__lover]

@satnamsandhuchd Congratulations team india

[Jagdish Mali @Thought__lover]

Fantastic victory

[Satnam Singh Sandhu @satnamsandhuchd]

Super Over and Super Efforts by #ArshdeepSingh!
Fantastic shot at containing the Sri Lankans in the super over by CU’s prodigy, Arshdeep, enabling Boys in Blue to seal a comfortable victory.
Way to go Team India on a hard fought win!
#INDvsSL