Govindan listed daily power cuts after a 10-year hiatus, controversies surrounding the sponsored foreign trips, the free air travel of ministers funded by anonymous entities, the upwardly spiralling cost of living crisis, the ailing public health sector and the UDF’s penchant for supplanting effective public service delivery with hollow propaganda spins as the main reasons that impelled voters to deliver a sharp rebuke to the V.D. Satheesan government.