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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#BharatJodoApp: Congress Party launched its Bharat Jodo App on Monday (October 3). The app aims to provide all the information about the Bharat Jodo Yatra which began on September 7, 2022, from Kanyakumari.
Both leaders faced each other at the Central Hall of Parliament House on the occasion of the wreath-laying ceremony organised on the birth anniversary of Father of the Nation -- Mahatma Gandhi, and late former Prime Minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri.
Sonia Gandhi will walk with the participants on October 6 during the Karnataka leg of the Yatra, a party source said.
Congress Bharat Jodo Yatra: The Yatra will pass through Karnataka for 21 days covering 511 km in the state. It began on September 7 from Kanyakumari and entered Karnataka on Friday after passing through Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Congress President election: Mallikarjun Kharge said he entered the polls after senior and young leaders alike urged him to enter the fray.
Congress President Election: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, publicly asserted that one has to stick with the ‘One Leader One Post’ resolution that triggered huge political drama in the party which ended with the withdrawal of Gehlot's ambition to be party president
Rajasthan Congress Crisis: The note also featured several points reportedly against Pilot. It looks in the note that Gehlot is claiming that he enjoys the support of 102 MLAs while Pilot just 18.
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Pilot met the Congress supremo just hours after his rival and Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot met Gandhi and announced his decision to opt out of the party president race.
Congress president election: The former Madhya Pradesh chief minister is the latest entrant in the fray for the party chief's election, even as the fate of Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot contesting the party chief's election is uncertain.
Be it inflation, unemployment or dictatorial tendency in the country, Rahul Gandhi worries about it. All of us in Congress worry about the direction in which the country is heading. Tackling that is more important for us. Internal politics goes on, we'll resolve it, Ashok Gehlot said.
Congress president election: If reports are to be believed, the Madhya Pradesh leader is coming to Delhi tonight, leaving Bharat Jodo Yatra in the middle, to file his nomination for Congress president election.
Congress President polls: The party's disciplinary committee has asked the three to explain within 10 days why action should not be initiated against them after the observers for Rajasthan - Mallikarjun Kharge and Ajay Maken - in their report charged them with "gross indiscipline".
Rajasthan political crisis: The Congress panel has asked both the ministers and an MLA to reply within 10 days why action should not be taken against them for grave indiscipline, sources said.
On the other hand, another minister, Rajendra Singh Gudha, once again endorsed senior Congress leader Sachin Pilot's name for the chief minister's post.
Rajasthan crisis: An 'upset' Sonia on Monday sought a written report on it from party observers Mallikarjun Kharge and Ajay Maken on the situation in the state.
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