We are kidding ourselves if we still believe that the partiality se some meta tactic to garner sympathy for Asim. This bashing is not to influence audience, they probably expect a backlash from audience but their motive with this move is to demoralize Asim so he takes a backseat in the game and in these last 2 months they continue to sideline him. Jab dikhay ga nahi game nahi khelay ga audience support bhi aik point ke baad khatam ho jaye gi.
Obviously the audience is to going have more empathy for him and Asim's fanfollowing and support will rapidly increase but will these people even convey all of this to Asim?
It is just to demoralize Asim and I feel anyone being in his place will be affected by it. So stray strong to him, that's the most we can say.