Patanjali Ayurved ’s messaging app ‘Kimbho’ was pulled down from Google Play Store yesterday, which is a day before its beta version was introduced on the platform.
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The Baba Ramdev led firm stated that it was the conspiracy by multinational companies against a Swadeshi firm and said the app will be back soon.
Patanjali Ayurved Spokesperson S K Tijarawala tweets “#Patanjali #kimbho App has fallen victim of the conspiracy of foreign companies #MNCs. We regret the inconveniences. It will be back soon,”.tweet reads.
When approached, Tijarawala said the trial version of the ‘Kimbho’ app was removed by Google without citing any reason. “We are communicating with them asking the reason why it was removed from the Play Store,” he added.
While e-mails sent to the Google didn’t evoke any response.
To recollect, Haridwar -based firm earlier this week put Kimbho’s trial version on Google Play Store for downloads almost two months after it was taken down without any notice. There is also a report that soon Kimbo app will be launched officially on August 27 after fixing the shortcomings.
On May 31 this year, Patanjali had removed Kimbo, which means ‘how are you’ or ‘what’s up’ in Sanskrit, from Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store just a day after launch, saying it was released only for a one-day trial.
At that time itself may technical experts had pointed out security flaws in the app. Patanjali wants to peg ‘Kimbho’ as a competitor to Facebook-owned Whatsapp.
Patanjali Ayurved Limited is an Indian consumer goods company.which is known for its range of FMCG products, had claimed that Kimbo had witnessed around 1.5 lakh downloads in the first three hours.