at the chavan niwas, people like ashwini and shivani spoke up and often gave nice, befitting replies to BK. in the end people only listened to BK but at least the other women had a tongue. 
but at the bhosale zoo nobody except AS and RS speak, others only listen and asmitha and shikha are practically mute. if they ever open their mouths to speak they will be instantly reprimanded by surekha and go back to their maun vrat.
just compare the dynamic BK had with ashwini to the dynamic between AS and asmitha, it's very different, right? remember when sai first came to the chavan niwas and BK refused to accept her as her DIL but ashwini welcomed her with open arms. I cannot imagine asmitha doing that in front of suekha even in my wildest, craziest dreams
also, BK was a better khadoos saas character than AS, she stood her ground and mostly faced problems upfront, instead of emotionally manipulating those around her (at least in the first couple hundred episodes because that's all I watched) to get her way like surekha does
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