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: The chorus for bringing Priyanka Gandhi to the forefront of Congress is getting louder day after day. The Congress workers, who are feeling dejected in the aftermath of the decimation of the party
New Delhi: A Delhi court, which had issued summons against Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and others, today deferred till August 28 hearing in the case filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy in the
New Delhi: A court on Thursday fixed Aug 28 as next date of hearing in a case against Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and her son and party vice president Rahul Gandhi and others over acquisition
New Delhi: In a major relief to Congress President Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul Gandhi, the Delhi High Court today stayed criminal proceedings against them and other Congress leaders in National Herald case till August
New Delhi: Congress and NCP will fight the Assembly polls in Maharashtra together, NCP leader Sharad Pawar announced today after a meeting with Congress President Sonia Gandhi to discuss the issue of seat-sharing. With Assembly
Shillong: Two Congress legislators from Meghalaya Tuesday met party chief Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi and apprised her about the growing dissent within the party in the state.Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee chief D.D. Lapang and
Mumbai: Former Maharshtra minister Narayan Rane, who had resigned from the cabinet over two weeks ago, today met senior state Congress leaders and put to rest speculations of his leaving the party. Rane, who was
New Delhi: In a latest revelation made by a book, My Years with Rajiv and Sonia, written by a former close aide of the Gandhi family, a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) spy had
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi today opposed in the Delhi High Court the private criminal complaint against her and the summons issued by a trial court in the National Herald case saying a political
Chandigarh: Punjab Congress today called upon party members to snub “forces of disruption, distraction and sabotage” by winning the two bye-elections in the state. This is the time for the party in the state to
New Delhi: Natwar Singh has created ripples in Indian politics with his sensational revelations about Congress president Sonia Gandhi, her husband late Rajiv Gandhi and their children Rahul and Priyanka. Natwar Singh, a former union
New Delhi: Former Congress Working Committee member Jagmit Singh Brar on Friday created a flutter with his remarks that there was "no harm" if Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi take a two-year break in the
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the daughter of Sonia Gandhi often reminds people of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. But despite the striking resemblance, she is a unique personality in her own right.Be it her meticulous way
New Delhi: The frosty relationship between Sonia Gandhi and late Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao comes out in full view in Natwar Singh's autobiography which says Gandhi was “never fond of” Rao who wondered
New Delhi: In fresh trouble for Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a preliminary enquiry in the National Herald case in which the duo and other
New Delhi: The ongoing war of words between Natwar Singh and Gandhi family is intensifying with each passing day. In an interview with a news channel over his yet to be released book "One Life
New Delhi: In what could be termed as a highly personal attack on Sonia Gandhi, former Congress leader Natwar Singh has alleged that Some part of Congress president is not Indian.Referring to his own humiliation
New Delhi: The Delhi Hight Court today issued notice to Subramanian Swamy in National Herald case and fixed August 5 as the next date for hearing this case.The High Court, however, refused to stay the
New Delhi: Former external affairs minister K. Natwar Singh has raked up the issue of Italian origins of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, stating that no Indian would have treated a loyalist the way he was
New Delhi: Jumping into the ongoing controversy over the allegations made against Sonia Gandhi by Natwar Singh in his yet to be published autobiography, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has clarified that no files were
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