What is the outcome of free and fair elections held in India?

(i) The ruling parties routinely lose elections in India, both at the national and state levels.
(ii) In India, about half of the sitting MPs or MLA.s lose elections.
(iii) Candidates who are known t9 have spent a lot of money in ‘buying votes’ and those with criminal connections often lose elections.
Barring very few disputed elections, the electoral outcomes are usually
accepted as the people’s verdict by the defeated party’