After
Salman
receiving
tremendous
flak
and
even
a
Jai
Ho
boycott
call
from
Muslim
groups
for
flying
a
kite
with
Hindutva
icon
Narendra
Modi,
now
it
is
his
old
‘best
friend'
Vivek
Oberoi's
turn
to
support
the
controversial
BJP
politico.
Vivek
recently
flagged
off
the
‘Run
For
Your
Country'
marathon
in
Mumbai
which
was
organized
for
educating
women
and
youth
to
cast
a
vote
in
the
upcoming
general
elections.
Interacting
with
the
media,
the
actor
said
he
wanted
Modi
to
be
India's
next
Prime
Minister.
So
is
Vivek
trying
to
tread
in
Salman's
footsteps?
Will
his
act
of
turning
a
Modi
supporter
invoke
another
taunting
reaction
from
the
megastar?
These
are
a
few
questions
that
immediately
come
to
the
mind.
We
asked
Bollywood
PR
guru
Dale
Bhagwagar
about
this,
but
he
surprisingly
shot
to
Vivek's
defense.
"Why
does
the
media
always
link
Vivek
to
Salman?
Past
is
past.
Let
them
move
on," he
quiped.
But
would
Vivek
following
Salman's
tactic
of
Modi-support
arouse
a
PR
crisis
situation
for
him
too?
"There
seems
to
be
no
‘tactic'
here.
Can't
an
actor
have
his
own
political
preferences?"
counter-questioned
the
crisis
management
expert.
"The
media
needs
to
respect
personal
choices
of
all
celebrities
rather
than
draw
battle
lines
with
differentiation
or
comparisons," he
remarked.
It's
only
later
we
learnt
that
the
publicist
has
earlier
handled
a
makeover
media
blitz
for
Vivek
and
that
could
be
a
reason
he
was
being
so
defensive
about
the
actor.