With each day passing by, I feel like the game which seemed one sided is no longer that way and it is indeed not going Shukla's way. Its not just because of what happened this week but a series of small events that have been going on from the past several weeks...from Shukla's aggressiveness, his violence and abusing Asim's parents to openly attacking Rashmi and more recently Sana's character; Rashmi throwing chai at him, Salman expressing his disgust at Shukla not mending his way and even calling him a gandagi box. Wether Sana slapped Shukla for real or it was just for fun will be out tomorrow but the fact that Shukla's not getting much sympathy from people speaks volumes about how angry people are with his behavior. The fact that more and more influential people and celebs are speaking against Shukla and the channels bias and more recently Asim's trend breaking all of Shukla's records is clearly indicating that the situation is going really out of hand. The channel or Shukla's PR cannot keep manipulating and building narratives to favour Shukla any longer because the larger majority out there can see things for what they are.
Making Shukla the winner would set a terrible precedent, the one that encourages violence, threats, abuses, character shaming, bullying etc...