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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Sonia Gandhi, who was summoned by the ED in a case related to the National Herald newspaper, had tested Covid positive on June 2.
The Congress chief, who was summoned by the ED in a case related to the National Herald newspaper, had tested Covid positive on June 2.
The Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee has passed a resolution to make Rahul Gandhi, the president of Congress Party.
Rahul Gandhi was earlier asked to depose on June 2 but the Lok Sabha member from Wayanad seat in Kerala sought a fresh date as he was out of the country.
The former Union minister is part of the 'G-23', a group of dissident leaders who are pressing for organizational reforms in the Grand Old Party which has suffered one electoral setback after another in the recent years.
Congress president has isolated herself and has been given requisite medical attention.
Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi received a summon from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) over the National Herald case, which was closed by the investigating agency in 2015.
Sonia Gandhi has been asked to depose before the ED on June 8 while Rahul Gandhi is understood to have been asked to appear earlier.
After ending his 25-yrs long association, in a letter to Sonia Gandhi, he said, in the recent past he has been finding himself "lacking in passion", while his own performance has been "listless and perfunctory".
Apart from the three Congress leaders including Vivek Tankha (Madhya Pradesh), P Chidambaram (Tamil Nadu) and Jairam Ramesh (Karnataka), the remaining candidates have not been given tickets from their home states for Rajya Sabha elections.
Prashant Kishor has said that he got a chance to contest 11 elections in 10 years out of which only one was lost in 2017 of UP which was with Congress.
Will Congress go to the elections under the leadership of Ashok Gehlot or Sachin Pilot or will adopt the formula of collective leadership, will be finalised soon.
At its strategy meeting in Udaipur, Congress had decided to have a political affairs committee in every state and the Centre to discuss ways forward.
Addressing the closing session of the party's three-day ‘Nav Sankalp Chintan Shivir' here, Gandhi said, “We have to accept that the Congress’ connection with the people has been broken.” “Our fight is for ideology. We have to go to the people and sit with them, the connection the party had with people has to be re-established,” he said.
The Chintan Shivir, organized in Udaipur after the gap of nine years, was attended by around 430 leaders and has prepared a "six draft resolution" which has been submitted to Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi
Congress' three-day Chintan Shivir begins today in Udaipur which will emphasize on discussions over 'communal polarization', farmers' issues and strengthening the party for the upcoming elections.
The focus of Chintan Shivir is to formulate an action plan for the party, and steps to be taken to strengthen the organisation.
In her opening remarks, Sonia Gandhi said that the deliberations will be in six groups, which will take up political, economic, social justice, farmers, youth, and organizational issues.
Modi ji, you used to criticise Manmohan ji when ₹ fell. Now ₹ is at its lowest ever value. But I won't criticise you blindly, Rahul Gandhi wrote on Twitter.
Congress stalwart and former Cabinet Minister Harsh Mahajan remained Congress MLA from Chamba Assembly constituency thrice, winning consecutively in 1993, 1998 and 2003.
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