Around 50 stores of food delivery firm Zomato’s grocery unit Blinkit are currently closed in several parts of Delhi-NCR as delivery partners are protesting against the recent changes in the payment structure.

According to Blinkit’s revised payment structure, delivery partners would now receive a minimum fee of Rs 15 per delivery, instead of Rs 25 per delivery.

Meanwhile, regular customers in many parts of Delhi and NCR have not been able to place their orders on the Blinkit app for the last few days as a message greeted them saying “Due to excess demand, temporarily unavailable”.

Taking to Twitter, BJP leader Kapil Mishra slammed the Blinkit management for doing “injustice” to its employees.

He also demanded the return of the old payment structure.
“Some Blinkit employees came and met me. The injustice Blinkit is doing to its employees is illegal. Management is playing with the lives of lakhs of families.

Blinkit management must implement old payment immediately. Reduction from Rs 25 per delivery to Rs 10-15 is cheating with the employees,” Mishra tweeted in Hindi.

Last year, Zomato bought Blinkit (earlier known as Grofers) for $550 million to jump on the bandwagon of “quick commerce”, which means delivering goods to people within a few minutes.