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: Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has invited social activist Anna Hazare and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi for an open debate on contentious Land Acquisition Bill.Gadkari today wrote a letter to political leaders and
New Delhi: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has written a letter to Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah urging him to recommend CBI probe into the mysterious death of IAS office DK Ravi.Home Minister Rajnath Singh has also
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi has expressed her agreement with the concerns of Gandhian Anna Hazare on the NDA government's land bill and vowed to oppose it at all fora.Gandhi yesterday wrote a letter
New Delhi: In a rare show of solidarity, more than 100 opposition MPs and political leaders led by Congress president Sonia Gandhi today marched from Parliament house to Rashtraparti Bhawan to seek intervention from president
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi today accused Narendra Modi government of failing to fulfill commitments made to the people of Andhra Pradesh when Telangana was carved out of it, a charge rejected by the
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said the opposition parties had joined hands to protest against the Land Acquisition Bill to oppose the Modi government's amendments to the right to fair compensation and transparency
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi will today lead a march of opposition parties from Vijay Chowk to Rashtrapati Bhavan to lodge strong protest against contentious Land Acquisition Bill.Sonia will be joined by former Prime
New Delhi: Giving a message of larger opposition unity, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will march with leaders of at least ten parties from Parliament House to President House today
New Delhi: Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi today dismissed NDA government's claim that Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were among the few politicians who had filled forms on security issues in the past. Singhvi was
New Delhi: Government today countered the Congress charges of snooping on Rahul Gandhi saying it was making a "mountain out of what is not even a molehill" as information collection was part of a transparent
New Delhi: Hundreds of Congress workers today clashed with police during a protest against the BJP Government's Land Acquisition bill, saying it was anti-farmer. Police resorted to lathi-charge and used water canons, leading to injuries
New Delhi: Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi's elevation to the party's president post is not a certainty, said senior leaders of Congress while speaking to media, adding that the All India Congress Committee Session is also
New Delhi: The NDA government said that the recent Delhi Police enquiries at the residence of Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi were part of a routine profiling and that the process was started by the Congress
New Delhi: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi who has gone a sabbatical ‘for a few weeks' is unhappy with lobbies around his mother and Congress president Sonia Gandhi.Quoting unnamed sources, NDTV also reported that Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi: Members of Parliament (MPs) in the capital are consistently bothered these days by increasing number of thefts in their official bungalows. A spurt of thefts has been observed in their household items like
New Delhi: P Chidambaram, former Finance Minister and senior leader of Congress, today said that the case against Dr. Manmohan Singh will not stand in the court as it does not have any credibility. He
New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today thanked the Congress party and Sonia Gandhi for showing solidarity with him and said he was grateful to them.Shortly after the Congress President and other top leaders
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi and top party leaders today took out a march from the AICC headquarters at 24, Akbar Road, to the residence of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to express solidarity
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who did not attend the Parliament session yesterday, is down with viral fever.Party sources said that Gandhi could not attend the Parliament yesterday as she was unwell and may
New Delhi: Congress party today announced that its Vice-President Rahul Gandhi has extended his leave of absence and would be back in Delhi by the end of the week. Earlier the party had said that
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