The proposal was initiated by Bharatiya Janata Party's Gopal Shetty, who was deputy mayor in the then MiC. ``A wrong impression was given to people of Mumbai about corruption being the main cause for its disbanding. The public should know the truth. How can the MiC which had just seven months' working time be blamed for a Rs 614 crore deficit? The civic administration had already incurred a deficit of Rs 316 crore deficit when MiC was initiated. We barely got time to work,'' he added.

However, his party colleague who was the health committee chairman during the MiC-run administration, Sardar Tara Singh, differed from slightly. He demanded that the inquiry be conducted by an independent body and not by the civic administration who were always opposed to the system. ``No MiC member has ever defaulted. Those people shouldknow that we had several good schemes implemented,'' according to him.

Senior Congress corporator and former mayor R T Kadam remarked, ``Today's unclean nallahs, bad roads are the legacy of the MiC which began work on cement concretisation of roads only in March after much delay because of the fight between two committee heads over the contract.''

Samajwadi Party's Waqrunissa Ansari said that MiC failed because its members were over confident. ``Mayor Nandu Satam was too arrogant. One-man-show does not work. He was reluctant to meet opposition party members,'' she said.BJP leader Arun Deo recommended that a three-member committee including a retired judge and distinguished persons such as former municipal commissioners S S Tinaikar and J B D'souza should be constituted.Mayor Hareshwar Patil put the proposal to vote saying the decision whether to implement the proposal or not will be the prerogative of the civic administration.