The key to the success of legislative business lies with the Congress, hence Sonia Gandhi has decided to make the crafty and combative Ghulam Nabi Azad the leader of the Rajya Sabha, ahead of veterans such as Manmohan Singh and A.K. Antony.

The Congress will need a strategic understanding with like-minded parties to rein in the government where it lacks strength, and Azad was seen as the best choice.

Although no formal announcement has been made so far, Congress sources revealed to The Telegraph that Azad's name was "almost final".

The Rajya Sabha will open on June 9 after the Lok Sabha MPs are sworn in and the President's address to the joint session of Parliament is over. Hence, the Congress did not name its Rajya Sabha leader alongside Lok Sabha's Mallikarjun Kharge, whose choice was read as Rahul Gandhi's reluctance to take responsibility.

There are indications that the BJP is looking to add up numbers in the Rajya Sabha and has offered the deputy Speaker's post to the AIADMK. The Congress has viewed this as a snub.

Although the Congress kept both the Speaker's and the deputy Speaker's post with itself in the initial period after Independence, a tradition gradually developed of the deputy Speaker's post being given to the Opposition.


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