Ola founder Bhavish Agarwal, rise up comic Kunal Kamra spar over service high quality points

Ola Electrical founder and CMD Bhavish Aggarwal throughout an interview with PTI, in New Delhi, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024.
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A confrontation broke out between Ola founder Bhavish Agarwal and humorist Kunal Kamra on Sunday (October 6, 2024) on social media platform X over the after gross sales and repair high quality of the corporate’s electrical scooters.

It began when Mr. Kamra responded to a submit on X by Mr. Agarwal, who posted a photograph of Ola’s gigafactory, by placing an image of a number of Ola Electrical scooters parked collectively seemingly ready for servicing.

“Do Indian shoppers have a voice? Do they deserve this? Two wheelers are many each day wage staff lifeline …,” Mr. Kamra wrote together with the picture.

He tagged Union Highway Transport and Highways minister Nitin Gadkari, asking: “Is that this how Indians will get to utilizing EV’s?” The comic additionally tagged the official deal with of the Division of Shopper Affairs, Authorities of India @jagograhakjago, in search of a solution saying “any phrase?” Mr. Kamra additional wrote, “Anybody who has a difficulty with OLA electrical go away your story beneath tagging all…”.

To this Mr. Agarwal responded, “Because you care a lot @kunalkamra88, come and assist us out! I will even pay greater than you earned for this paid tweet or out of your failed comedy profession. Or else sit quiet and allow us to concentrate on fixing the problems for the actual prospects.”

He additional stated, “We’re increasing service community quick and backlogs might be cleared quickly.”

To the “failed comedy profession” comment by Mr. Agarwal, Mr. Kamra responded by posting a video clip of considered one of his reveals with viewers clapping and cheering and referred to as the Ola Electrical founder and CMD “smug and substandard”.

In response, Mr. Agarwal stated, “Chot lagi? Dard hua? Aaja service heart. Bahut kaam Hai. (Did it harm. It’s totally much less. Come to service heart). I’ll pay higher than your flop reveals pay you.”

Mr. Kamra then challenged Agarwal to “give a complete refund to anybody who needs to return their OLA EV & who’s bought it within the final 4 months”, saying he would not want his cash however “folks not having the ability to get to their office want your accountability”.

“Present your prospects that you just actually care,” Mr. Kamra asserted.

Mr. Agarwal hit again saying, “We have now sufficient applications for our prospects in the event that they face service delays. When you have been a real one, you’ll have identified. Once more, do not try to again out of this. Come and do some actual work reasonably than armchair criticism.”

Many Ola Electrical shoppers jumped into the spat and complained concerning the service high quality of the corporate, asking Mr. Agarwal to handle their points.