A compulsory mandated app installed on every Indian citizen's new phone

And people are not even going to retaliate, because they don't know how bad this is.

Can you, um, jailbreak the phone somehow to uninstall it?

This seems incredible stupid, like most things governments do.

This is a direct breach of privacy. We don't know what this app collects and does with it. As long as this malware can be uninstalled, it'd be fine.