Amid Twitter row, Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar joins Koo

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 1

With the BJP government at the national level embroiled in a face-off with the microblogging platform Twitter, many politicians from the saffron party are joining its Indian substitute Koo.

Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar is the latest to join the Indian microblogging social networking platform, which enables the users to interact in their mother tongue.

Using handle @manoharlalbjp, Khattar said, “My first Koo on India’s first microblogging platform! Let’s connect to share our ideas, thoughts and suggestions!”

With two million followers on Twitter, Khattar is one of the most-followed leaders from the Haryana region.

Welcoming Khattar on Koo, Aprameya Radhakrishna, founder and CEO, Koo, said, “In the last four months, Koo has had the privilege of welcoming the Chief Ministers from nine Indian states on our platform, including Himanta Biswa Sarma (Assam, @himantabiswa), Jairam Thakur (Himachal Pradesh, @jairamthakurbjp), BS Yediyurappa (Karnataka, @bsybjp), Shivraj Singh Chauhan (Madhya Pradesh, @chouhanshivraj), Ashok Gehlot (Rajasthan, @gehlotashok), Biplab Kumar Deb (Tripura, @bjpbiplab), Tirath Singh Rawat (Uttarakhand, @TirathSinghRawat) and Yogi Aditynath (Uttar Pradesh, @myogiadityanath). They are all active on Koo in their respective languages.”