THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2014 (PAGE 18) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU Karan declines to be Oppn leader in RS NEW DELHI, May 28: it has got only 44 members after Veerappa Moily, a former Union Dr Karan Singh, a senior the recent elections. Minister and a Chief Minister. Congress leader and a Parliamenta- The names doing the rounds Party insiders, however, say rian, is understood to have declined for the post includes Kamal that a majority would like the the offer of being the Leader of Nath, who has been elected for post to be occupied by either Opposition in the Rajya Sabha. the ninth term this year, and Rahul or Sonia Gandhi. (PTI) Singh, 83, at present the Deputy Leader of the Congress in the Upper House, was believed to have been made the offer by Congress President Sonia Gandhi after she was authorised by the Parliamentary Party last week to choose lead- ers for both the houses. The fact that Singh was made the offer indicates that Manmmohan Singh, who was the leader of the house when he was Prime Minister for the last 10 years, may be disinclined to be the Leader of the Opposition, a post he had held during the Vajpayee Government years. Karan Singh, a scholar, is understood to have conveyed to Gandhi his inability to take up the post in view of his other commit- ments in the field of culture. Other senior leaders in Rajya Sabha include A K Antony, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Janardhan Dwivedi, Digvijay Singh and Jairam Ramesh. It is also not clear as to what the Congress President would do on the post of Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, where