Singh said the BJP government in UP was the "most popular" government and the BJP organisation in the state was the "strongest". He refuted claims that BJP workers were unhappy with the bureaucracy saying that in no other state had more than 17,000 workers been nominated to government committees.He expressed satisfaction with the BJP's performance in the zilla panchayat elections and said that the "hegemony" of a single party (Samajwadi Party) was broken as they had to wind up with about 700 seats while a lot of independent candidates were on BJP's side.