Cobrapost exposes Bollywood stars accepting bribes for promoting political parties
An exposé by Cobrapost has revealed that a number of Bollywood celebrities have accepted bribes in black for promoting political parties on Twitter for votes in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Names that have been linked to the allegations are Sonu Sood, Ganesh Acharya, Shakti Kapoor, Vivek Oberoi, Sunny Leone, Rakhi Sawant and Abhijeet Bhattacharya. Cobrapost has taken to Twitter to post videos where the named celebrities are seen negotiating for better rates and even black money.
The full list of stars published by Bollywood Hungama are: Sunny Leone, Vivek Oberoi, Jackie Shroff, Tisca Chopra, Shakti Kapoor, Sonu Sood, Shreyas Talpade, Amisha Patel, Mahima Chaudhry, Puneet Issar, Surendra Pal, Pankaj Dheer and his son Nikitin Dheer, Deepshikha Nagpal, Akhilendra Mishra, Rohit Roy, Rahul Bhat, Salim Zaidi, Rakhi Sawant, Aman Verma, Hiten Tejwani and wife Gauri Pradhan, Evelyn Sharma, Minissha Lamba and Koena Mitra, Poonam Pandey, Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Kailash Kher, Mika Singh and Baba Sehgal. Raju Srivastava, Sunil Pal, Rajpal Yadav, Upasana Singh, Krushna Abhishek.
Kailash Kher tells us that his agency will handle the Commercial aspects of the Deal, with a hidden agenda: “Haan, Hidden mein bhi wo batayenge commercial hum Nahi batayenge. Hum bas Haan ya Na kar sakte hain, ki ye kaam hum kar payenge ya Nahi kar payenge” #BikaooBollywood pic.twitter.com/RtiG1cXnKL
— Cobrapost (@cobrapost) February 19, 2019
#OperationKaraoke: Sunny Leonne has a condition of granting her husband Overseas Citizenship to support BJP: “Modi Sir ne Daniel ko overseas citizen banaya toh hum zaroor support karenge.” #BikaooBollywood pic.twitter.com/nGGw0OonRy
— Cobrapost (@cobrapost) February 19, 2019
#OperationKaraoke: Jackie Shroff says how it’s part of the game to keep such secrets “Wo game hota hai apna-apna yaar … apna kaam hai hum acchi baatein hum faila rahe hain, saath mein Dhan bhi de rahe hain toh oopar waale se faqir kya maangta hai” #BikaooBollywood pic.twitter.com/u5xI80Tr9H
— Cobrapost (@cobrapost) February 19, 2019
#OperationKaraoke: Bollywood playback singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya offers to make incendiary videos that would make viewers’ blood boil: “Wo mera video lijiye aap statement live … paanch-paanch minute teen-teen chaar minute ke khoon khaulane wala video lijiye” pic.twitter.com/J1S7L9e37j
— Cobrapost (@cobrapost) February 19, 2019
#OperationKaraoke: Film Choreographer, Actor & Director Ganesh Acharya is quick to understand that he has to work on a Hidden Agenda: “Nahi main samajh gayaa aapki baat … Hidden hai” #BikaooBollywood pic.twitter.com/cNUiizGXGB
— Cobrapost (@cobrapost) February 19, 2019