Low voting percentages in Urban areas

With the general elections in India crossing the half way mark and with 2 more phases to go, it has been yet another election when the voting percentages across the urban areas in the country going down constantly. The percentage of voting in major cities like Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi and Hyderabad has gone down considerably in 2009 when compared to the figures in 2004. It is very sad to learn that despite Mumbai being the business capital of the country, the voting percentage to somewhere around 45%.

Is this a result of the educated, affluent class of people losing faith in the democratic process itself ? Or is this because the salaried class feels that there has been no change in their day to day problems irrespective of their elected representatives ? Whatever might be the reason for this reduction in voting percentages, the reality is that the elected representatives would be crowned as MPs on the basis of a simple arthimetical calculation, but they are not necessarily the true representative....

There is a danger of the voting percentages go down even further in the years to come. I believe the next Govt should take some steps to identify the reasons for people not coming out to vote and take measures to improve the same.

PS - I did cast my vote along with my spouse.