The Lok Sabha elections 2019 is just a fortnight away and all political parties are vying with each other to woo the voters.  Political analysts are divided in opinion as to whether the incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi would lead the country for yet another five year term.

Over 100 filmmakers from across the country have signed an appeal under "Save Democracy" urging people to vote the BJP out of power in Lok Sabha Elections 2019.   From the South director, Vetrimaaran and Aashiq Abu have signed the appeal.

The statement from the Artist Unite India reads

An Appeal to the People of India

Our country is going through the most testing times ever. Though culturally vivid and geographically diverse, we have always stayed united. As a nation. It has indeed been a great feeling to be a citizen of this wonderful country.But all that is at stake now.

Fascism threatens to strike us hard with all its might if we don't choose wisely in the coming Lok Sabha election. Period. As we all know, ever since the BJP came to power in 2014, things have changed. And only for the worse. A country polarised along religious lines isn't the India we have known. Besides, the BJP and its allies have failed miserably in keeping their election promises. They are now using mob lynching and cow vigilantism to split the country communally. Marginalizing Dalits and Muslims is the name of the game. They are spreading their hate campaigns with the help of the internet and social media. Patriotism is their trump card. Any individual or institution that raises the slightest dissent is labelled ‘anti-national’. ‘Patriotism’ is how they grow their vote bank. Let us not forget that some of our eminent writers and media persons lost their lives because they dared to dissent.

Romanticizing and exploiting the armed forces is one of their strategies. Even at the risk of engaging the nation in an unnecessary war. There is unrelenting onslaught on the cultural and scientific institutions in the country. They mock the collective intelligence of the people by appointing persons with no relevance or experience as heads of these institutions, propagating unscientific and irrational beliefs even at international science seminars, making us the laughing stock of the entire world. Banning and censoring 'works of art', especially the most powerful of the lot - Cinema and Books - is their way of keeping the population away from the truth.

Farmers have been completely forgotten. In fact, the BJP has made the country the boardroom property of a handful of businessmen. Flawed economic policies that ended up as extreme disasters are covered up and made to look like successes. All with the help of false propaganda and marketing blitz. This has helped them to create a false optimism in the country.

Manipulation of statistics and history is another one of their fond projects. Giving them one more term in power will be a grave blunder. It could well be the last nail in the coffin for the biggest democracy in the world.

We urge all of you to do everything in your capacity to keep this harmful regime from coming back to power. Let your mandate be to choose a government that respects the Constitution of India, protects our freedom of speech and expression, and refrains from all kinds of censorship.

Yes, This is our last chance!

Signed by:

1. Aashiq Abu
2. Abhijnan Sarkar
3. Abhro Banerjee
4. Ajayan Bala
5. Ambika Rao
6. Amitabha Chatterjee
7. Amshan Kumar
8. Amudhan R
9. Anand Patwardhan
10. Aneez K Mappila
11. Anirudda Sharma
12. Anjali Monteiro
13. Anupama Bose
14. Arun Karthick
15. Arun M
16. Arun N Sivan
17. Asha Unnithan
18. Babu Easwar Prasad
19. Baburaj V G
20. Baburaj Pandavath
21. Bina Paul
22. C S Venkateswaran
23. Dar Ghai
24. Devashish Makhija
25. Debjani Banerjee
26. Debalina
27. Deepa Dhanraj
28. Deepesh T
29. Dileep Daz
30. Divya Bharathi
31. Gobi Nayanar
32. Goutham Soorya
33. Gurvinder Singh
34. Indrasis Acharya
35. Indraneel Lahiri
36. Jayan Cheriyan
37. Jeeva K J
38. Jeeva Ponnuchamy
39. Jiju Antony
40. Jisha
41. Jhelum Roy
42. Jubith Namradath
43. Kabir Singh Chowdhry
44. K B Venu
45. K P Jayashankar
46. Kombai S Anwar
47. Kamal K M
48. Leela Santhosh
49. Leena Manimekalai
50. Madhupal
51. Maheen Mirza
52. Malini Jeevarathnam
53. Manisha Korde
54. Manoj Kana
55. M G Sasi
56. Miransha Naik
57. Maulik Raj
58. Muhsin Parari
59. Nishtha Jain
60. P F Mathews
61. Padmakumar Narasimhamurthy
62. Pradeep Nair
63. Pradeep Dipu
64. Prakash Bare
65. Pramod Payyannur
66. Prasanna S Kumar
67. Pratap Jospeh
68. Prateek Vats
69. Praveen Morchhale
70. Prem Chand
71. Priyanandanan
72. Pushpendra Singh
73. Q
74. Rafeeq Ellias
75. Ranjith Sankaran
76. Rinchin
77. Ritesh Sil
78. Sajeevan Anthikkad
79. Saji Palamel
80. Sajin Baabu