A Maharashtra man’s unique protest against electric scooter company Ola has gone viral. Frustrated over receiving no response after filing a complaint repeatedly, the man tied a donkey to the electric scooter and paraded it in the Beed district.
A video shared by an account named Letsuppmarathi on Instagram showed the man taking rounds in the town with the electric scooter tied to a donkey. Posters against the company were also seen attached to the donkey and the scooter.
The man, Sachin Gitte, is heard saying in the video that the vehicle stopped working a few days after he bought it. He filed a complaint via email the next day and called up the customer service but there was no response. Gitte’s protest has created a stir in the area.
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Instagram users tagged the company and urged it to resolve the issue. Recently, Ola Electric announced that the company is recalling 1,441 units of its electric two-wheelers after incidents of vehicles catching fire were reported. Ola Electric said the scooters being recalled will be inspected by its service engineers and will go through a diagnostic check across all battery, thermal and safety systems.
Dozens of incidents of electric two-wheelers catching fire have been reported from various parts of the country in recent times. Notably, a scooter had gone up in flames while it was parked on the roadside in a busy area in Pune last month. The company had said the incident was likely “isolated”.
