Attar Singh believed that military personnel and politicians should not participate in the Interim Government, and received harsh backlash for this critique.
On 14 January 2007, Singh was quoted by Fiji Television as insisting that Military personnel and politicians should not participate in the Interim Government (Mahendra Chaudhry, whose Fiji Labour Party has links to the rival union group, was Minister of Finance in the Interim Government during 2007), and that the sole purpose of the interim government should be to prepare for elections, not to legislate new laws. He also condemned as "unconstitutional" the appointment of Bernadette Ganilau as Minister for Labour, according to a Fiji Television report (9 January 2007). Singh's criticism of the Military-backed interim government provoked a hostile reaction from Commodore Bainimarama on 14 January 2007. He has attacked Commodore Frank Bainimarama, the coup leader who has since been sworn in as interim Prime Minister of Fiji. 
