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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Nadda wrote a four-page letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, a day after the Congress Working Committee hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government over the handling of the coronavirus crisis.
The post of Congress president is vacant since Rahul Gandhi resigned after the party's defeat in the Lok Sabha elections in 2019.
The Congress didn't win even a single seat in West Bengal and failed to pose a challenge to the incumbent governments in Kerala and Assam. The party lost Puducherry to BJP. In Tamil Nadu, the DMK-led alliance of which the Congress is a constituent managed to dislodge the AIADMK government.
Launching a fierce attack on PM Narendra Modi, Sonia Gandhi charged that India is crippled by political leadership that has no empathy for the people.
The Congress fared poorly in these elections, failing to win back Assam and Kerala and losing in Puducherry. While it failed to win a single constituency in West Bengal, its alliance with DMK in Tamil Nadu won.
Sonia Gandhi has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over new vaccine policy. She has described the government's policy as arbitrary and discriminatory.
Sonia Gandhi accused Centre of giving preferential treatment to some states while maintaining "thundering silence" on requests of states ruled by Congress and opposition parties.
In a letter to the prime minister after her meeting with chief ministers of Congress-ruled states, Sonia Gandhi sought expansion of categories of people eligible for vaccination on the basis of need and exposure rather than age.
Sonia Gandhi said all public gatherings and poll rallies should be cancelled as the number of COVID-19 cases is on the rise and asked the chief ministers if the economic packages announced by the Centre had the desired impact.
TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in a letter to the heads of other political outfits, senior leaders including Sonia Gandhi, Sharad Pawar, MK Stalin, Tejashwi Yadav, Uddhav Thackeray, Arvind Kejriwal, Naveen Patnaik, saying that the time has come for a united and effective struggle against BJP's attack on democracy and constitution.
Congress has released its list of 30-star campaigners for the forthcoming West Bengal. According to the list, party's interim chief Sonia Gandhi, ex-PM Dr Manmohan Singh and party leaders Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Sachin Pilot, Navjot Singh Sidhu, others will campaign for the party.
The Congress is yet to release the list of its star campaigners for the assembly polls in which Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka are likely to be included. All eyes will be on the names of the leaders led by Ghulam Nabi Azad whose Rajya Sabha term ended recently.
In the first-ever show of strength, the dissenters in the Congress (G23) shared a public platform in Jammu and participated in the Shanti Sammelan, raising internal issues of the Congress like party becoming weak in the past decade, leadership, while at the same time, sharing a piece of advice for the young generation.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday targeted Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi over a recent speech comparing politics in north and south India and said that the opposition leader was playing divisive politics.
Advocate Satya Sabharwal, appearing for the BJP MP, and advocate Tarannum Cheema, appearing for Gandhis and others, confirmed that the high court has issued notice in the matter and stayed the trial court proceedings till April 12.
Stressing that fuel prices are at a "historic and unsustainable" high, Gandhi said petrol has breached the Rs 100 per litre mark in many parts of the country and the surging price of diesel has added to the escalating woes of millions of farmers.
The letter row, which created a major controversy in the Congress in August last year, does not seem to have died down, with AICC members being mailed a copy of the letter written by 23 senior leaders to interim chief Sonia Gandhi seeking widespread reforms in the party.
Navjot Singh Sidhu is considering his return to the Punjab cabinet but is likely to be given a ministry other than he held earlier. Sidhu had been the local bodies minister and also held the charge of tourism ministry.
The name of Jyotiraditya Scindia, who switched sides and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party triggering the collapse of Kamal Nath government in Madhya Pradesh in March last year, also figures in the list for making a contribution of Rs Rs 54,000.
According to sources, during the meeting Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, without naming anyone, said that there are other issues in the country, however for few leaders only organisational election matters.
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