Baba Ramdev's Kimbho chat app has been deleted from the Google Play Store. It is also no longer available on the iOS store for the iPhones. Not only the app is unavailable in the Google Play Store Search, it is also no longer opening in the Kimbho page app. Clicking on the links are now leading to page not found error.

It is not clear why the Kimbho app, which was pitched as the Swadeshi chat app in competition with WhatsApp, has vanished from the Google and iOS play stores. It is also not clear if it was deleted by Google and Apple from their respective stores or if it was taken down by Patanjali Communications, the developer behind the app.

If it was taken down by developers, it is possible it was done so to fix a certain issues. One person on Twitter tweeted that in the screenshots, the Kimbho -- a Swadeshi app -- used the photo of a Pakistani actress. After all, if an app that is pitched as a Swadeshi "built by Indians for the Indians", is using the photo of a Pakistani actor Mawra Hocane that would be rather embarrassing.

Then Elliot Anderson, the French security researcher who found holes in Aadhaar security, also pointed that Kimbho is full of bugs and that he could access all messages users were sending using the app. Chances are that Kimbho app was deleted because Patanjali Communications is fixing bugs. Or maybe the whole app was some sort of a joke and that it is over now.

In his tweet, Elliot said, "Ok, I will stop here. The #Kimbho #android #app is a security disaster. I can access the messages of all the users... This @KimbhoApp is a joke, next time before making press statements, hire competent developers... If it is not clear, for the moment don't install this app. #Kimbho #KimbhoApp".

Another theory that is floating around as to why Kimbho has vanished from the Google Play Store and the iOS app store that serves iPhones is because it was an alleged copy of another app called Bolo Messenger. And if indeed the allegations are true, it is possible that Google and Apple have acted by taking down the copy-cat app.

There have been a number of people who have made connection with the Bolo Messenger and the Kimbho, but yet again Elliot has explained it well. He tweeted, "The @KimbhoApp is a copy paste of another #application. The description and the screenshots in the app stores are the same. Moreover, the #Kimbho app is making request to bolomessenger[.]com".