While Samata Party leader Raghuvar Dayal Verma clearly stated that the party would not accept anyone except Kalyan Singh as the chief minister, the Loktantrik Congress, Jantantrik Bahujan Samaj Party, Janta Dal (Rajaram) and the Independent MLAs announced that their support was for the party (BJP) and not to a specific leader.

The alliance groups barring Samta Party said the chief minister's statement was against democratic norms and spirit of coalition politics. The chief minister should have taken all the allies into confidence before coming out with such an important statement, they said.

These alliance groups, however, were of the definite opinion that the issue of change of leadership was an internal matter of the BJP and political stability of thestate should not be put at stake.