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: With media reports suggesting NCP leader Sharad Pawar cosying up to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi , union minister K V Thomas has further deepened the mistrust between Pawar and Sonia Gandhi by
New Delhi: The Congress today announced the setting up of a 50-member 2014 election campaign committee.Sonia Gandhi is the chairperson and Rahul Gandhi is the co-chairman. The other members of the committee are: Dr Manmohan
New Delhi: A Sikh human rights advocacy group Sikhs for Justice has given an ad in a New York newspaper offering to give $ 20,000 reward to anyone ready to testify before a court if
Vijayawada: Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal today took a swipe at Sonia Gandhi, saying she “ignored” the groundswell of support against division of Andhra Pradesh by not listening to the party leaders on the issue.“Unfortunately, the
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi Wednesday snubbed party leader Janardan Dwivedi's statement calling for an end to reservation along caste lines, saying the empowerment of Scheduled Castes and Tribes and Backward Classes has been
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal told a delegation of Pakistani journalists that he has not studied India's relations with Pakistan, and he would prefer the Centre to respond on such issues. Kejriwal went
Meerut(UP): Narendra Modi today hit back at Sonia Gandhi over her ‘zeher ki kheti' barb saying it is the Congress which spews poison and reaps the harvest out of it with its divisive politics.“Sonia Gandhi
Hisar (Haryana): With infighting in Haryana Congress often coming to the fore in the past, former Union Minister Kumari Selja, who has been elected to Rajya Sabha, today said she would strive to take along
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Saturday said it added Congress President Sonia Gandhi and BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's names in the list of "corrupt leaders" against whom it has decided to
Gulbarga (Karna): Attacking BJP and its PM candidate Narendra Modi, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today accused them of indulging in divisive politics by “sowing seeds of poison” (zeher ki kheti) and instigating violence.“This is an
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi Wednesday said minorities should feel "safe" and hoped that the Prevention of Communal Violence Bill will be passed soon."The cabinet has approved the Prevention of Communal Violence Bill. I
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir's National Conference (NC)-Congress alliance headed by Omar Abdullah Wednesday resolved the deadlock over the creation of new administrative units in the state after NC patron and union minister Farooq Abdullah invoked
Patna: A row has erupted over the launch of Aligarh Muslim University centre in Bihar, with the state government accusing the Centre of ignoring them for the event. Congress president Sonia Gandhi will lay the
New Delhi: The attorney of Congress President, Sonia Gandhi has said that she will not depose before a federal court in New York in a human rights violation lawsuit filed against her by a Sikhs
New York: Congress party president Sonia Gandhi will not depose here in a human rights violation lawsuit filed against her by a Sikh rights group, her attorney has said.Responding to a demand made by Sikhs
Jaipur: Congress in Rajasthan today took a decision authorising Congress President Sonia Gandhi to choose candidates from the state for the Lok Sabha elections.In the meeting headed by the new PCC chief, Sachin Pilot, the
New Delhi: Hitting back at the Congress, BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi today taunted it for not naming Rahul Gandhi as the Prime Ministerial candidate saying Sonia Gandhi wanted to save her son from
New Delhi: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi today visited Union Minister Shashi Tharoor whose wife Sunanda Pushkar was found dead at a luxury hotel in South Delhi last night.Gandhi spent around six-seven minutes at Tharoor's Lodhi
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi Saturday visited junior HRD Minister Shashi Tharoor's house and condoled the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar, party sources said.Gandhi went to the Lodhi Estate residence of Tharoor and
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi Friday firmly told clamouring party leaders and activists that the decision not to field Rahul Gandhi as the prime ministerial candidate was final.As Congress workers raised slogans at the
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