They also deserve recognition cuz they started the show.

https://www.filmymasalanow.in/a-team-member-replied-to-why-hina-khan-karan-mehra-are-absent-from-12-years-celebration-of-yeh-rishta-kya-kehlata-hai/

THIS!

They carried the show for 7 whole years with the same freshness. They helped build it from the ground up & made it what it is today.

Rajan Shahi is beyond petty. Hina & Karan have both mentioned how they got ill-treated by RS for leaving. He might make better shows than Ekta Kapoor, but he needs to learn how to be a better person from her.

His Kaira fetish cannot erase the Akshara-Naitik era. I wonder how many older directors & writers did he ignore in this celebration.