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: BJP today questioned Congress President Sonia Gandhi's silence on the apology demanded from her by the party for alleged misuse of CBI by the previous UPA government, in the wake of a special
New Delhi: Alleging the Centre of reducing the crucial Land Acquisition Bill to the status of a “Hamlet without the Prince”, Congress today said that his party will oppose the ordinance on it in the
New Delhi: Congress had a roller-coaster ride in 2014 from the commanding heights of power to the lowest depths of defeat as the Narendra Modi-led BJP juggernaut decimated it in Lok Sabha and successive assembly
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi will kickstart the party's campaign for Delhi Assembly polls with a “mega rally” after January 10, as the party gears up to bring out
New Delhi: Congress today celebrated its 130th Foundation Day which comes in the backdrop of the party's sliding base and its disastrous electoral performance this year.Congress president Sonia Gandhi presided over the function at the
New Delhi: Congress will today mark its 130th foundation day which comes in the backdrop of the party's sliding base and its disastrous electoral performance this year.Congress president Sonia Gandhi will preside the function at
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi today condemned the attack on civilians by militant groups in Assam. “Killing of innocent people in Sonitpur and Kokrajhar is an act of cowardice
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi was today discharged from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital after she was treated for upper respiratory infection.According to Dr D S Rana, chairman, board of management, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital,
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who is being treated for lower respiratory tract infection, is recovering well and her test results are showing progressive improvement, doctors said today.“The health condition and test reports of
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who is admitted to a hospital here for an infection in her lower respiratory tract, is feeling better, the hospital said Sunday."Mrs. Gandhi is feeling better and her condition
New Delhi: Delhi's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on Saturday held a press conference to release the health bulletin on Congress President Sonia Gandhi.The health bulletin reads: "Congress President Mrs Sonia Gandhi was admitted to Sir
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who has been hospitalised for lower respiratory tract infection, is stable and recovering well."Her condition is stable and she is recovering well," said Dr Ajay Swaroop, Chairman, Board of
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi was Thursday admitted to the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here for an infection in the lower respiratory tract. Her condition was stable, a hospital official said."Sonia Gandhi was today
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday extended the stay on the trial court order summoning Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and three others in the National Herald case till the final disposal
Lucknow: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) Monday announced its plan to organise a 'Ghar Wapasi' (home coming) programme in Rae Bareli, Congress president Sonia Gandhi's parliamentary constituency.VHP's Rae Bareli district unit chief Harish Chandra Sharma
New Delhi: Congress today appointed former minister Anjan Dutta, who was quizzed by CBI in Saradha scam probe, as Assam PCC chief, replacing Bhubaneswar Kalita whose tenure would have ended in March after holding the
New Delhi: A united opposition today forced BJP member Sakshi Maharaj to express regret in Lok Sabha and withdraw his remarks terming Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse a patriot. Congress President Sonia Gandhi joined opposition members
New Delhi: Senior IPS officer Vivek Srivastava was Wednesday appointed as Inspector General in the elite Special Protection Group (SPG) which guards Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other VVIPs, including the Gandhi family.Srivastava, a 1989-batch
Srinagar: Congress president Sonia Gandhi Wednesday blamed "coalition compulsions" for the failure to implement all people friendly programmes in Jammu and Kashmir.Gandhi said: "I know we could not fulfill all the pro-people programmes like the
New Delhi: A Delhi court today said that the summons issued against Sam Pitroda, who along with Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and others, was named as accused on the issue of acquisition of
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