Offering a different version to the statement issued by independent directors of the company yesterday, he said when the confidence in the Chairman is lost, "the first thing I said in the last board meeting was that the Chairman of Tata Chemicals should step down. Because the risks are big...I requested him to step down and instead ask independent director to chair the meeting." When asked what was the main concern he had, Bhat said: "The rupture of the relationship between the Chairman of Tata Sons and the Chairman of Tata Chemicals. The rupture, I am talking about is legal rupture. We can pretend nothing has happened but finally, his discontinuance happened because of loss of confidence."