If it was someone else in the place of Akansha, revealed to be the CM's ex-wife, Richa would have made this a sensational news to increase her channel's TRP and inflating Dev's image... She would have made every single attempt to push Shaurya away from the CM chair, it would have been hard considering Shaurya's popularity but it wasn't impossible for media to tarnish anyone's image, they held the power to defame even the purest of the sages, and above all, when it came to public figures, especially politicians, people never used rationality or their own brains to judge them, they relied more on media and this alone generated a profound need for every politician to own a news channel, but Shaurya stayed away from it despite having more than necessary funds at his disposal to own it.