Sonia Gandhi is an Indian politician of Italian descent. By way of her marriage to Rajiv Gandhi, she is a member of the Nehru–Gandhi family. She was a former president of the Congress party. In 1998, she took over as the party leader and remained in office for a record nineteen years. Under her leadership, the party formed the government post the 2004 elections. She has since been credited for being instrumental in formulating the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). After the 2004 victory, Gandhi declined the premiership and instead led the ruling alliance and the National Advisory Council. In 2009, UPA was re-elected to power. Her foreign birth has been a subject of much debate and controversy. In December 2017, she stepped down as the Congress president. Sonia Gandhi has been widely described as one of the most powerful politicians in the country. She is also listed among the most powerful women in the world. Early life: She was born in a small village near Vicenza, Italy and was raised in a Roman Catholic Christian family. For higher education, she moved to Cambridge and in 1968, married Rajiv Gandhi. After marriage, she took up Indian citizenship and began living in India. Following her husband's assassination, she finally agreed to join politics in 1997.
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Jamshedpur, Oct 2: Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) (JVM), which has announced withdrawal of support from the Manmohan Singh-led UPA II, did not see anything wrong in Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi demanding that the government
Kolkata, Oct 2: BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi Tuesday sought clarification from the UPA government on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's allegation that Rs.1,880 crore had been spent on Congress president Sonia Gandhi's foreign trips.”Modi
New Delhi, Oct 2: BJP today alleged that instead of coming clear on whether expenses for UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi's travel and treatment abroad were paid from public exchequer and what was the amount spent,
New Delhi, Oct 2: Digvijay Singh today hit out Narendra Modi over his allegation on Sonia Gandhi's foreign trips, saying he has been trained well by RSS in the “Nazi tradition” of false propaganda and
New Delhi, Sep 25: The Congress Working Committee (CWC) Tuesday backed the government's decisions on economic reforms saying they were necessary to lift a sagging economy and arrest the slide of the rupee. The CWC
New Delhi, Sep 24: Congress president Sonia Gandhi today held parleys with some union ministers and senior party leaders amid indications of a Cabinet reshuffle.Those who met Gandhi at her official residence at 10-Janpath included
New Delhi, Sep 23: With a cabinet reshuffle and party restructuring in the offing, Congress president Sonia Gandhi is keen that both the government and the organisation work in tandem to fight as many as
New Delhi, Sep 21: With Trinamool Congress set to exit the UPA, the Congress top brass, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party chief Sonia Gandhi, will meet on Friday evening to decide the future
New Delhi, Sep 19: At a top-level Congress Core Group meeting at the Prime Minister's official residence at 7, Race Course Road this morning, the party leadership decided to call Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee's bluff,
New Delhi/Kolkata, Sep 17: Congress President Sonia Gandhi held consultations with party leaders as the 72-hour deadline set by Trinamool Congress for rollback of diesel price hike, LPG subsidy cap and FDI in retail ended
New Delhi, Sep 17: NDA convenor and Janata Dal-United chief Sharad Yadav has appealed to UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to remove prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh, finance minister P Chidambaram and Planning Commission deputy chairperson
New Delhi, Sep 11: The fate of two Congress ministers, tourism minister Subodh Kant Sahai and coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal looks uncertain, with indications that the party president Sonia Gandhi may ask both of them
Mumbai, Sep 7: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray Friday targeted Congress president Sonia Gandhi, alleging that the country had gone to the dumps under her leadership.In a marathon four-part interview, the first installment of which
New Delhi, Sep 1: Congress President Sonia Gandhi today travelled abroad for a routine medical check-up a year after undergoing surgery for an undisclosed ailment. “The Congress President has gone abroad for check-up,” AICC General
New Delhi, Sep 1: Keen to break the logjam in Parliament over the CAG report, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has reached out to Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj but the BJP appeared unrelenting on its
Jaipur, Aug 30: Congress president Sonia Gandhi arrived here Thursday and met people who were affected by heavy rains and are living in relief camps, officials said.Gandhi assured the affected people of all possible help
New Delhi, Aug 28: Congress president Sonia Gandhi Tuesday asked party MPs to take the Bharatiya Janata Party head on and said it was a "matter of shame and regret" that the BJP was not
New Delhi, August 23: A combative Sonia Gandhi today asked Congress MPs not to be defensive on the CAG report on coal blocks allocation and to aggressively counter the offensive launched by the BJP which
New York, Aug 22: UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi was today ranked the sixth most powerful woman in the world, ahead of US First Lady Michelle Obama, by Forbes magazine in its list of 100 women,
New Delhi, Aug 20: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Sunday called for stern action against those disturbing social harmony in the country in the aftermath of Assam violence, describing the ethnic clashes in the northeastern
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