Originally posted by: chanaa
PRASHANT deserves to be in top 4 because you should not forget the following facts.
1. Who choosed Prashant from the very beginning round until the start of PIANO round? They are the Judges. No one has any doubt on this. All judges found him decently qualified to remain in the competition, any doubt?
2. From Piano round, he has won enough audience support. He never got the worst comment in the show compared to others. To be honest, Judges comment him mostly as a very good performer. In few occasion, he had average show. In every show until recent Gala, there are two to three contestants who were criticized worse than him. And the fact is that those people who got worse comment than Prashant were never eliminated (except Abhisekh). Criticized people get more votes always. Prashant was setting a benchmark to assure the weakest performers stay in the show. Recall EMON in the last show, he got worst comment for copying Sonu's style in poor way making his performance worse. On the other hand Chang got the best comments but the result is with you now. Emon safe but Chang out.
3. Prashant is blamed for having regional voters from Darjeeling, even Javed ji told that on the show indirectly. But his regional support base is too small compared to others say Emon who has the whole bengali support, Ankita has more than 300 times larger bihar, and so on. Also, Prashant himself is from very poor family background and his regional supporters are comparatively weaker in financial ranks, who can not afford expensive SMS voting compared to others. Besides that the mobile network in Darjeeling and skkim is the poorest in India that can not handle those many votes Prashant has got. All these evidents tell the single fact that the allegation of regional voting is baseless.
(Thanking Khalid for valuable inputs)