'I am not a member of any association but some auto drivers threatened to damage my auto if I drove the vehicle. So I decided not to take a chance,' said Salim Abbas, an auto-rickshaw driver in east Delhi.

After their talks with the Delhi government failed Monday, the auto-rickshaw association decided to continue with their strike Tuesday.

'We will continue with our strike. We will meet in the evening to decide on the future course of action if the Delhi government does not listen to our problems,' Sobran Singh Rajput, president of the Bharatiya Tipahiya Chalak Sangh, told IANS.

The Delhi government has decided to take stringent action against auto drivers not complying with the orders.

'Auto-rickshaw drivers are striking to resist any kind of clean-up. We will not let the unruliness continue on Delhi's roads with drivers plying without a licence,' Delhi Transport Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely had said Monday.