[ad_1]
Website Investigation Cobrapost claimed on Tuesday that several Bollywood celebrities, music and television industries, had agreed to promote free political accounts of some parties on the media social. In most cases, it was the Bharatiya Janata party, in others, the Aam Aadmi party or the Congress, the press house added.
Cobrapost stated that he had conducted an investigation, dubbed "Operation Karaoke", posing as the employees of a fictional public relations agency and using pseudonyms. The infiltration operation revealed that the playback singers Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Kailash Kher, Mika Singh and Baba Sehgal, actors Jackie Shroff, Shakti Kapoor, Vivek Oberoi, Sonu Sood, Amisha Patel, Mahima Chaudhry, Shreyas Talpade, Puneet Issar, Pendao his son Nikitin Dheer was willing to post favorable messages on social media for political parties.
Tisca Chopra, Deepshikha Nagpal, Akhilendra Mishra, Rohit Roy, Rahul Bhat, Rakhi Sawant, Aman Verma, Hiten Tejwani and his wife Gauri Pradhan, Evelyn Sharma, Minissa, also performed, Poonam Pandey, Sunny Leone, the comedians Raju Srivastava, Sunil Pal, Rajpal Yadav, Upasana Singh, Krushna Abhishek and Vijay Ishwarlal Pawar and choreographer Ganesh Acharya and dancer Sambhavana Seth.
Some of the stars have also agreed to send such messages without pay, the press office added.
"They were willing to sign a false contract for the approval of products in order to conceal the true nature of the political campaign by proxy", Cobrapost says. "They agreed to send us their PANs and bank details, and many did. They vowed to keep the secret exercise in its entirety and to hide the agenda. Some actors have even proposed to promote the political party by proxy during their press briefing when promoting a film or event.
However, some celebrities, including Vidya Balan, Arshad Warsi, Raza Murad and Saumya Tandon, refused to promote a political party, Cobrapost said
Jackie Shroff
Cobrapost's Journalists approached actor Jackie Shroff posing as employees of the company Future PR, one of whose clients is the Bharatiya Janata party.The reporter told Shroff that the BJP wanted to launch a campaign on social media for the 2019 elections, but could not do so openly In response, Shroff said the agenda mattered little as celebrities like him say good things about the party on social media and they get paid for it.
"How long will this game last?" Shroff asked, "This work will begin September 1, 2018 and will last nine months," said one journalist.
SHRO ff agreed to keep the task secret, claiming that he was a close friend of a Union minister. "I understand the whole problem," he said. "But I am an apolitical person who does not undertake any controversy."
The actor refused to offer fees for his services. But he said, "If I open the doors of my heart, will you open your purse?"
Undercover journalists have agreed to pay Shroff generously. Cobrapost says that his reporters then met with Shroff's badistant, Shetty, who told them that at least 20% of the amount paid would have to be in the books of account. "You can pay 80% in cash," he agreed.
Kailash Kher
Singer Kailash Kher agreed to promote the BJP on his social networking accounts when he was approached by undercover reporters Cobrapost . Public relations agents. "You can tweet about the good work of the Modi government," said a reporter. "Only three or four times a month."
"What will be the commission for this?" Kher asked. The reporters told him that it depends on how many people follow the celebrity on social media. "You have to tell us what you want to charge for a tweet," the journalists asked. Kher asked them to appeal to his agency for negotiations.
To the question of whether he has a problem with this task, Kher replied, "No, not at all". "You will give me the content, but I will filter it," he added. The singer said he understood that it should not be obvious that he is promoting the BJP on social networks.
Baba Sehgal
"We will provide you the content, but you will do the posts," reporters told singer Baba Sehgal on a phone call. "In a way, we are hiring you, but your public image will be that you support the ideology of the BJP."
"Yes, we do it, we've done it before," he said. "But how many tweets?" "You will have to do 4 to 5 tweets a month," said one of the reporters when Sehgal said that he could not meet the PR representatives on a trip.
Sehgal told reporters that he charged 2 lakh rupees per tweet. When asked what percentage of the payment he would take in cash, the singer replied, "I can take 50%, 30-40%? What percentage do you want in white [money]? "Sehgal is surprised to find that the agency could not deposit more than 20% of the amount on his account.
Poonam Pandey
Cobrapost approached actor Poonam Pandey and informed her of promoting government projects, such as Swacch Bharat, Demonetization and Beti Bachao Beti Padhao. "We will provide you with content, just promote it on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram in your own way," said a reporter.
"We will use your social media accounts in favor of the BJP," the reporter said. "But the public will think that Poonam Pandey says that."
Pandey agreed to perform this task. "Whenever we make a post, it never seems like it is promoting something obvious," Pandey said. "If I write something after our mutual conversation, it will look real." The journalists agreed to discuss the messages before they were published.
Journalists provided Pandey with detailed information on their payment structure, offering 20% "white money". and 80% in cash. "All payments will be paid to you in advance," they added. Cobrapost stated that Pandey had agreed to post 15 social media posts per month on all platforms for an additional 45 lakh.
Source link
