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, Jun 16: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, it is learnt, has told the Congress MPs and MLAs from Telangana that a final decision regarding their demand for bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh will be taken
New Delhi, June 16: Congress president Sonia Gandhi is in Orbassano near Turin in Italy, where she is visiting her ailing mother Paola Maino, who lives there with her other two daughters, Deccan Herald reported.
New Delhi, Jun 14 : The details of foreign visits undertaken by National Advisory Council Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and expenses incurred on them should be made public, the Central Information Commission has held.Hissar-based RTI applicant
New Delhi, Jun 12 : Congress President Sonia Gandhi today expressed shock over the killing of senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey in Mumbai and asked the party's government in Maharashtra to leave “no stone unturned” to
New Delhi, June 5 : With the midnight crackdown on Baba Ramdev's hunger strike coming under attack from the opposition and civil society, Congress President Sonia Gandhi this evening held consultations with senior party leaders
Lucknow/New Delhi, June 5 : Dubbing the police action on “peaceful and unarmed” people at Baba Ramdev's hunger strike as a “shameful” chapter in India's democracy, BJP today accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress
New Delhi, Jun 2 : Congress top brass, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party chief Sonia Gandhi, are expected to deliberate today on the situation arising out of yoga guru Ramdev's plans to go
New Delhi, May 22 : Pledging to take corruption head on, the Congress-led UPA tonight promised to punish the guilty in scams and assured the people that it would demonstrate through actions and not not
New Delhi, May 21: Dogged by scams and unable to move ahead on economic reforms in a big way, the UPA government headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh steps into the third year of its
Varanasi, May 19: Congress president Sonia Gandhi today lashed out at the Mayawati government alleging that the"re was a conspiracy to "grab land" across Uttar Pradesh by "misusing" government machinery. She posed the question "why
New Delhi, May 14 : Congress on Monday night appeared to be in two minds on the issue of joining the government to be led by Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal.Party top brass including Prime
Puttaparthi (AP), Apr 26: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi today led thousands of people in paying homage to Sri Sathya Sai Baba here this evening.Both the leaders stood in silence in
Shimla, April 23: The dream of Priyanka Vadra, daughter of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, to have a summer holiday home in the cool clime of the Himalayas may take a few more months to be
Ranchi, Apr 21: Social activist Swami Agnivesh today said if Congress President Sonia Gandhi did not ask her party general secretary Digvijay Singh to stop statements “contrary” to her commitment against corruption, her party's image
New Delhi, Apr 21: Gandhian Anna Hazare has expressed happiness at the letter written by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi assuring him that she does not support “politics of smear campaign” and that she was strongly
Bali (WB), Apr 20 : Criticising Congress President Sonia Gandhi for her comments about alleged backwardness of West Bengal, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat tonight said her development recipe was “tailored for only the rich”.“Soniaji
New Delhi, Apr 20: Responding to Anna Hazare's complaint against her “colleagues”, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today assured him that she does not support “politics of smear campaign” and she was strongly committed to the
Shantipur/Salar/ Nalhati, Apr 20: Congress President Sonia Gandhi today took on the Left Front government alleging that it remained in power for 34 years banking on its sole claim that it was the messiah of
Nalhati (WB), Apr 20 : Congress president Sonia Gandhi today claimed that West Bengal has been taken on a road of destruction under the 34-year Left Front rule and assured that the Congress-Trinamool alliance is
New Delhi, Apr 18: The Supreme Court today dismissed the plea of a RTI applicant seeking disclosure of “religion and faith” of UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and her children under the Right to Information Act.
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