More than 900 artistes, including film stars and other film people, on 10th April pledged support to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and urged people to vote for the BJP. They said, India needed a majboot sarkar, not a majboor sarkar. The film people in the list included Vivek Oberoi, Shankar Mahadevan, Koena Mitra, Anuradha Paudwal and Hans Raj Hans.