I'm in agreement with both Pinky05 and Ashiyana.
To introduce a wildcard round only because of a certain elimination is not something I personally see as worthy of respect. If Sonali had been eliminated, then I'd guess that such a round would not have been introduced. It's a clear bias in favour of Prachi.
I have nothing against Prachi at all - in fact I think that in her time in JDJ, she improved a lot and became a very good dancer - definitely not the best, but still very good. Whilst I'm not against her in any way at all, I'm definitely against the idea of favouratism by thee people in charge of the show.
An article from mid-day did state that the Balaji Telefilms people put a lot of pressure on the people in charge of JDJ to have some sort of way of bringing Prachi back. The wildcard idea was DEFINITELY not part of the show before - also, the series it has been based on (UK's 'strictly come dancing' and USA's 'dancing with the stars') has NEVER had a wildcard round at any point... but JDJ has broken away from them now just to get a contestant back.
At the end of the day, if the JDJ people had a problem with good contestants going, then they shouldn't have public voting in the first place and just left it to judges scores to makes sure that "bad" dancers go. And if the issue was about Diwali stopping PD fans from voting, who's fault was that? All the other fans voted for their favourites, but PD's fans didn't... it was just bad luck. And so there wasn't anything remotely unfair about it.
On top of it, one of the judges (Jeetu), rallies for the wildcard just because his company's rising star got eliminated... he had no issues with the others being eliminated. So much for judges being mutual...
On the other hand, Sudha ji has done something very courageous by declining the wildcard nomination. Sudha ji has always been a class act, and I'm sure that the respect people have for her will grow even further with this decision of hers. I for one, applaud her đ
Even though my fav contestant is still there, I have to admit that I'm totallyunimpressed with this bias thing to the point where I'm kinda less intersted in JDJ now đł
God bless.