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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New Delhi: A part of the kickbacks allegedly paid in the AgustaWestand deal was returned back through a maze of shell companies based in Mauritius and Tunisia as foreign direct investment (FDI) , the Economic
New Delhi: Launching a fresh attack on Sonia Gandhi over the AgustaWestland scam, BJP on Saturday claimed the then Defence Minister A K Antony had raised objections about the VIP chopper deal but was overruled
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday summoned former IAF (Indian Air Force) chief SP Tyagi as a part of on going probe in the VVIP AgustaWestland chopper scam. According to news reports, the
Ahmedabad: Intensifying his attack, BJP President Amit Shah today targeted Congress chief Sonia Gandhi once again over the VVIP chopper scam asking her to explain a ”number of relaxations” given to AgustaWestland which, he alleged,
BJP yet again targeted Sonia Gandhi today asking her to name the bribe takers in the Rs.3,600 core chopper deal but Congress hit back saying Amit Shah's demand was a "no confidence vote" in the Modi government which has "failed" in its job in last tw
New Delhi: India has approached the British government for extradition of Christian Michel, the middleman named by Italian investigators as a key intermediary in swinging the controversial deal for AgustaWestland choppers. Minister of State for
New Delhi: BJP chief Amit Shah on Thursday launched a sharp attack on Congress chief Sonia Gandhi over the VVIP chopper scam and asked her to name those who received the “kickbacks”. ”All I want
New Delhi: The latest revelation in VVIP Chopper scam has put Congress on backfoot after an Italian Court held that kickbacks were paid to Indian middlemen and accused the UPA government of not sharing key
The Supreme Court will next week hear a plea seeking FIR against the people allegedly bribed in the AgustaWestland chopper scam including Congress president Sonia Gandhi and former PM Manmohan Singh.
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the BJP is planning to corner the Congress and party president Sonia Gandhi over the deal in UPA’s tenure and have asked the then Defence minister A K Antony to come clean and name the party leaders allegedly involved in the scam
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