New Delhi: India Micro-Blogging Site Koo has received encouragement with the Chairperson of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee-LED Congress Trinamool (TMC) who joined him on September 2.
With this development, the customary social networking platform becomes more diversified as it is considered mostly followed by BJP is in power and the alliance partner of the NDA.
In addition to his main handle, TMC has opened two more accounts – one for the Tripura unit (@ Aitc4tripura) and the other for the wing of the West Bengal Unit (@WBTMCPOFICIAL) – on the KOO application, which is considered the Indian version of Twitter.
This shows the importance of TMC attached to Tripura where the possibility of opposing assembly selection of 2023.
The Mamata Banerjee party tried to become BJP’s main rival in power in the absence of a weakened Congress and CPM.
In their first Koo in Bengali and England, TMC said, “We were checked to be in Koo”.
Welcoming TMC, Koo Co-Founder and CEO of Aprameya Radhakrishna, said, “Koo expands a warm welcome to the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC).
We believe that this will allow people to listen to the development and plan AITC.
In a short time, Koo has crossed 10 Million downloads and we look forward to more people who join the platform.
“TMC may have joined Koo, but a large number of political parties and top leaders have not opened their accounts on the Indian social media platform.
For example two of the biggest political parties – BJP and Congress – do not have their account in Koo.
The top leaders of the ruling party such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah and BJP President JP Nadda have not opened their account in Koo.
Likewise, the leader of the Rahul Gandhi Congress, his sister and all Indian Congress Committee (AICC) Secretary General Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and other senior leaders also have not joined Koo.
Of the 77 Union ministers, 18 has joined the Indian social media platform.
They are Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal, Smriti Irani, Arjun Munda, Kiren Rijiju, Dharmendra Pradhan, Narendra Singh Tomar, Mahukh Mandaviya, Mahendra Nath Pandey, Pralhad Joshi, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Sarbanda Sonowal, Giriraj Singh, Harger Singh Puri , G Kiswan Reddy, Anurag Thakur and Bhupender Yadav.
Of the total of 30 main ministers, almost half joined Koo.
From 14 cms in Koo, 11 is from BJP – Yogi Adityanath (Uttar Pradesh), Himanta Buswa Sarma (Assam), Pramod Sawant (Goa), Vijay Rupani (Gujarat), Manohar Lal Khattar (Haryana), Jai Ram Thakur (Himachal Pradesh ), Basavraj BOMMAI (Karnataka), Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Madhya Pradesh), N Biren Singh (Manipur), Biplab Kumar Deb (Tripura) and Pushkar Singh Dhami (Uttarakhand).
Ashok Gehlot (Rajasthan) and the Office of the Ministry of Chief (CMO) Punjab is both of them from Congress.
YS Jaganmohan Reddy of YSR Congress (Andhra Pradesh) is the only non-BJP and non-Congress CM in Koo.
Some political parties or leaders who have opened their account in Koo including BJP, Congress, AAP, LJP, JJP, BSP, SP, Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party, JDU, People’s Party, AIMMP, JDS, YSRCP, Shiv Sena, NCP, RJD , JMM, RLD and Apna dal.
Koo, which was launched in March 2020, is currently available in eight languages.
It has witnessed with one crore download in about 17 months.
TMC Mamata Banerjee joined Koo, showing an emphasis on Tripura
