One web portal Cobrapost conducted a sting operation to bring out the names of Bollywood celebrities who got ready to promote a political outfit for money, in fact huge money!
Many actors and celebrities in Bollywood were caught in this operation, agreeing to ‘discretely’ promote a political party for money. These celebrities are ready to post a message on their respective social media handles that would directly or indirectly mean a benefit to a political party, for money.
According to this report, singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Kailash Kher, Mika Singh, Baba Sehgal, Jackie Shroff, Shakti Kapoor, Vivek Oberoi, Sonu Sood, Ameesha Patel, Evelyn Sharma, Minissha Lamba, Koena Mitra, Poonam Pandey, Sunny Leone, Rakhi Sawant, Mahima Chaudhary, Shreyas Talpade, Puneet Issar, Pankaj Dheer, Surendra Pal, Tisca Chopra, Deepsikha Nagpal, Akhilendra Mishra, Rohit Roy, Rahul Bhat, Salim Zaidi, Aman Verma, Hiten Tejwani, Gauri Pradhan, Raju Srivatsava, Sunil Pal, Rajpal Yadav, Upasana Singh, Krushna Abhishek, Ganesh Acharya and Sambhavana Seth agreed to promote any political agenda for money.
Only few Celebrities Vidya Balan, Arshan Warsi, Raza Murad and Saumya Tandon refused to promote any political outfit for money.
All the above listed celebrities were ready to do it for a fee, when asked if they are willing to promote a political party discretely through their Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Most of them asked for major amount of fee in cash (black money). Some of them reportedly tweeted without even getting the payment, just to show their willingness to do so.
The sting operation was carried by representing themselves as fictitious PR agency. The celebrities even agreed to sign a dummy contract that says they agreed to endorse a product, to disguise the real deal.
