Yes. Because even when all the judges criticized last year's winner he still managed to get majority votes because a group of people were voting for him no matter what. so judges' comments are taken into consideration only by few people.
Thats what i meant to say 😊 If the choice of judges and janta are same then we could accept the fact that a contestent gets maximum vote from maximum people (not from only a group of people who blindly vote for their favorates)