Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal mobile application, the NaMo app, is now selling merchandise like t-shirts, mugs, caps and pens. The app, which is available on Android as well for iPhone users, has over 10 million downloads. [caption id=“attachment_4407999” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]
File image of the Narendra Modi app. Google Play Store screengrab[/caption] Some of the goods available on the app have slogans like ‘NaMo Again’, ‘Yuva Shakti’ and ‘India MODIfied’. While the t-shirts are priced at Rs 199, a pair of mugs will cost you Rs 150. According BJP’s IT-cell head, Amit Malviya, the proceeds from the sale of these items will go to the ‘Clean Ganga Fund’. He also said that once a user signs up as a volunteer, options for ‘digital volunteering’ and ‘on ground tasks’ will become available to him or her,
according to The Times of India’s report
. Interestingly, the platform which is hosting the merchandise on the app is called Flykart, which sounds similar to Indian online retail portal Flipkart. Flykart is owned by a Delhi-based company Firki Wholesale Pvt. Ltd.,
a Business Today report said
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