Inflation is undoubtedly one of the causes for the unimpressive performance of the Congress Party in the state assembly election held in Punjab and Uttranchal.But the real cause is non-performance of ruling MLA's which is also said as anti-incumbency votes. Most of the MLA's make lot of promises while asking for votes in poll campaign but they completely ignore voters when they come to power. They seldom care for the welfare of voters when they are elected. They are master in making even unimaginable and unpractical promises but totally incompetent and unwilling to fulfill those promises which results in annoyance of voters. Not to speak of doing for voters they even do not spare time for voters to know their grievances. They do not even visit their constituency after their election. They seldom get time for their voters once they are elected. They are beggars before the election but voters become beggars once their candidate is declared elected. This is why most of elected representative loss when they go for testing their fate in election second time. First timers succeed in befooling voters but second time their report card is prepared by voters as also their rival candidates. I therefore always request the government that those candidates who are unable to secure less than 50 percent of votes in second chance compared to first chance must be stopped for at least third chance. Besides such candidates must be punished severely for their non-performance proved in second time election results. Until there is provision for punishment for non-performers there may not be any improvement in the prevailing situation and voters will be cheated again and again. Voters will make experiment with one candidate or the other and they will never realize that all are birds of the same feather. There are rare exceptions who really work for their voters and this is why there are certain unbeatable records of MLA/MP's who have been winning election one after another election continuously for last two or three decades and even more. Actual Reason for defeat is never accepted by any defeated candidates or defeated party. Blame always goes to inflation or non cooperation from the central government or some natural calamities or caste polarization or something else. When real causes for the defeat are not identified how there may be real remedy to eliminate the root case of defeat.
