Bigg Boss 19 contestant Shehbaz Badesha claimed that the bond between fellow contestants Abhishek Bajaj and Ashnoor Kaur was not genuine but a strategy for the game. Badesha stated that if their friendship were real, Abhishek would not have been hurt by Pranit More's decision to evict him and save Ashnoor. He suggested that a true friend would have been happy for Ashnoor's continued presence in the show.