LAHORE, June 13: The PML-N claimed on Sunday that the MMA had offered opposition leader's slot in the Senate to the party in return for its support to Maulana Fazlur Rahman as opposition leader in the National Assembly.

"But we declined the offer requesting Maulana Fazl to voluntarily vacate the slot for ARD chief Makhdoom Amin Fahim so that all opposition parties could be re-united on a single platform," PML-N MNA and provincial general-secretary Khwaja Saad Rafiq told a press conference here on Sunday.

He said that Maulana Fazl had called Raja Zafarul Haq to convey the offer. But he was told that the party was not ready to use any shortcut even for reaching power corridors what to talk of this office, he added.

Answering a question, he said they were in contact with the PPP high command on the issue of launching a joint candidate for PP-156. The PML-N had nominated Advocate Naseer Bhutta for Lahore constituency vacated as a result of disqualification of the League's Sheikh Amjad Aziz for holding a bogus graduation degree.