But what are the complaints that so threaten the Shiv Sena's futureprospects? Embezzlement of BMC funds? Gross financial mismanagement? The breakdown of civic administration? Incompetence? An autocratic mayor? And did such things occur because of human error and wrong-doing or because the MiC system itself was rotten? The Shiv Sena whose brain-child this was owes it to Mumbai to bring out the full facts. For a start, Municipal Commissioner Girish Gokhale's pre-mortem report should be made public. That should be followed by an independent postmortem which should also be made public. If nothing else, it is in the interests of the politicians and administrators who will succeed the MiC that the whole truth come out. They will be the ones who have to deal with the legacy of a monstrous fiscal deficit, a huge backlog of work and an array of dubious decisions. For the Sena and BJP it may be convenient to let Nandu Satam to carry the whole burden of the blame. But it is better for everybody else that the MiC does not die as it lived under a veil of secrecy. Past blunders are liableto be repeated unless they are properly understood. After all, many sober people, including a former municipal commissioner, thought there was merit in the MiC. So what went wrong, the system or the people who ran it? If the Sena and BJP don't tell the full story, the opposition should demand an independent inquiry.