Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday announced that he has switched his official email service to Zoho Mail, a homegrown email platform. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Shah shared his new email address and requested people to take note of the change for future correspondence. “Hello everyone, I have switched to Zoho Mail. Kindly note the change in my email address. My new email address is amitshah.bjp@zohomail.in. For future correspondence via mail, kindly use this address. Thank you for your kind attention to this matter,” Shah wrote in his post. The move to Zoho Mail, a Made in India software-as-a-service (SaaS) company headquartered in Chennai, is being seen as swadeshi push to switch to homegrown brands. While the Home Minister did not elaborate on the reasons for the switch, Zoho is used by several businesses. Hello everyone, I have switched to Zoho Mail. Kindly note the change in my email address. My new email address is amitshah.bjp @ For future correspondence via mail, kindly use this address. Thank you for your kind attention to this matter. — Amit Shah (@AmitShah) October 8, 2025 Zoho mail is a Gmail and Outlook rival in India. Shah concluded his post by saying ‘thank you for your kind attention to the matter’. Shah is the latest from the Union Cabinet to join Zoho Mail amid the government’s push for Swadeshi in the backdrop of US tariffs. Last month, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had announced switching to Zoho's Office Suite Software. Read more Zoho co-founder Sridhar Vembu has thanked Amit Shah for joining Zoho. Thank you Sir, for your faith in us🙏 I dedicate this moment to our hard working engineers who have toiled hard in Zoho for over 20 years. They all stayed in India and worked all these years because they believed. Their faith is vindicated. Jai Hind, Jai Bharat🙏 — Sridhar Vembu (@svembu) October 8, 2025 Zoho also responded to the minister saying: "Thank you for your trust in us. It’s inspiring to see national leadership embracing Indian innovation. The whole Zoho team joins in gratitude." About Zoho Zoho Mail offers a free forever plan, providing ad-free email hosting for up to five users on a single domain, with 5GB of storage per user. On Zoho, you can host your email address with your own domain name. Zoho Mail offers a maximum file attachment size of 1 GB per attachment whereas Google Workspace’s default attachment size per file is 25MB. Zoho Mail is a part of Zoho Corporation founded in 1966 in Chennai.
