Uber is a foreign firm working in India only for profits, says Ola

Ola, India's largest app-based cab aggregator has stood in favour of Karnataka's new regulations that ask for governing tech-based cab hailing services. It has also accused its arch rival, the multinational cab-aggregator company Uber India, of flouting all Indian norms and working in India only for its profit.

Ola has also said that it is the only cab aggregator that has been issued a license under the new regulations, and it’s because it satisfies all the conditions laid down by the government. On Uber challenging the laws, it said that the petition was "motivated and has been filed in an attempt to bypass the laws of the land by foreign companies who run their operations in this country for profit without due regard for the applicable laws."

It added that Karnataka government has framed the rules with the primary object "to promote and ensure the safety of the user-riders availing the services of aggregators... The rules emphasize the need to provide safety and security to the user-riders."

As per Additional Advocate General A.S.Ponnanna’s submissions before Justice Aravind Kumar, the Karnataka government will not allow any aggregator to offer white-board (non-passenger) vehicles on their platforms. To this, Ola, in the affidavit that it filed, said that it does not operate any private vehicles on its platform, but also accused Uber of offering such services in the form of bike-taxies in Gurgaon and car-pooling in Bengaluru.

It added that Uber has been allowing private vehicles without valid contracts and permits on its platform, under the name of car-pooling.

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