Raghav Chadha becomes Blinkit delivery partner for a day, weeks after having lunch with delivery boy

AAP MP Raghav Chadha on Monday swapped Parliament corridors for city streets as he spent a day as a Blinkit delivery agent, highlighting the daily pressures faced by gig workers and renewing his call for reforms in India’s fast-growing quick-commerce sector. The Rajya Sabha member shared a video of the experience on social media, saying the exercise was meant to understand ground realities and push for better working conditions.

A day in a Blinkit uniform

In the video posted online, Chadha is seen wearing Blinkit’s yellow uniform, helmet, riding pillion with a delivery partner as they complete multiple orders across the city. The visuals mirror a regular delivery shift, showing him accompany the rider from one drop to another.

Sharing the clip, Chadha wrote, “Away from boardrooms, at the grassroots. I lived their day.”


The outreach ties into concerns he has repeatedly raised in Parliament and public forums about safety, pay and dignity for gig workers.

Why gig workers are upset

Chadha’s move comes at a time when delivery partners across platforms are demanding a policy overhaul. One of the key flashpoints is the ultra-fast delivery model, including 10-minute deliveries, which workers say puts them under extreme pressure and increases accident risks.

The AAP MP has argued that speed-driven business models often ignore the human cost borne by delivery partners.

Speaking up beyond Parliament

This is not the first time Chadha has taken an unconventional route to make his point. In recent months, he hosted a delivery agent for lunch and interviewed him publicly to draw attention to issues like unpredictable earnings, lack of social security and safety concerns.

Earlier this month, Chadha criticised quick-commerce and food delivery platforms, saying that if companies needed police support to operate, it was “an admission” that the system “doesn't work”.

Clash with platform founders

The remarks came after Zomato and Blinkit founder Deepinder Goyal commented on delivery workers’ strikes, describing some striking workers as “miscreants” while maintaining that platforms had created jobs at scale.

Responding on X, Chadha wrote, “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."

He added, “Workers asking for fair pay are not criminals.”

New Year’s Eve and the strike debate

After the strikes failed to disrupt operations significantly, Goyal said on X that Zomato and Blinkit recorded a delivery surge on New Year’s Eve, “unaffected by calls for strikes that many of us heard over the past few days.”

He also wrote, “Support from local law enforcement helped keep the small number of miscreants in check," while sharing delivery figures from the night.

‘This is a fight I will see through’

Reiterating his stand, Chadha said he had already raised gig workers’ issues during the winter session of Parliament and would continue to pursue the matter.

“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," he said.

Viral video leads to lunch invite

Earlier in December, Raghav Chadha also invited a Blinkit delivery worker, whose video went viral on social media, for lunch. The gesture followed Chadha’s intervention in Parliament, where he drew attention to what he described as the “invisible labour” behind app-based services used daily by millions.

‘Invisible labour’ raised in Parliament

While speaking in the Rajya Sabha, Chadha highlighted how the convenience of mobile apps often hides the people powering these services. “Every day, we press a button on our mobile phone app and a notification arrives: ‘Your order is on its way’. Behind this notification, there is often a person whom we do not acknowledge,” Chadha said in the Parliament.