The Honorable Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, joined Koo in November. Her handle is @Mamtaofficial on Koo. In her first, Koo Mamata Banerjee announced the milestone of 50 lakh rural households having access to clean potable water through tap connections. She congratulated everyone involved in achieving this.
Welcoming Mamata Banerjee on the platform, Aprameya Radhakrishna, CEO & Co-founder, Koo, said, “We are delighted to have Mamata Banerjee on our platform. Other leaders of All India Trinamool Congress and the official handle of AITC have a presence on our platform too. Millions of Bengali users across the world and many Indians across the country would want to get updates from Mamata Ji directly. This is the best way for millions of her followers to engage and listen to her views on various topics in their native language. In the 2.5 years since Koo’s launch, it has crossed 50 million downloads and we invite more prominent individuals to join the platform to connect with the larger India.”
Koo App enables conversations in 10 Indian languages. Several leaders, prominent personalities, and brands use Koo App to connect with their followers in their regional language apart from English. The Multi-Language Koo (MLK) feature on the app enables users to Koo in one language and share it with Koo users in the ten languages that Koo offers. Currently, the Koo app is available in English, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Kannada, Gujarati and Punjabi.
Today several leaders from the most important National and Regional parties use Koo App to connect with the people in their language. Over 1800+ political leaders and 7500+ eminent personalities from various fields are active on Koo App and connect with millions of people on the platform. Moreover, 100,000+ users have authenticated their identities voluntarily in the last six months for free, within seconds.
Koo App uses transparent and well-defined criteria to grant free Eminence to eligible applicants. Apart from this, all users can choose to authenticate their identities on the platform. Moreover, both the eminence and identity authentication is provided free of cost.
