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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Sheila Dikshit is unlikely to be projected as the Congress party's chief ministerial face for the upcoming Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh in 2017 after the party veteran turned down the offer
Thiruvananthapuram: Congress President Sonia Gandhi came under direct attack of Subramanian Swamy on Saturday when BJP MP alleged that she wanted to declare a state of emergency in the country by "cooking up Hindu terror
Swamy, on Sunday, took to his official Twitter account to announce that is next ‘project’ is to expose 27 bureaucrats who are loyal to TDK – an abbreviation apparently used by him for Sonia Gandhi.
New Delhi: Assam Pradesh Congress Committee president Anjan Dutta passed away this morning at the AIIMS hospital here following cardiac failure. Dutta, 64, was admitted to the hospital on May 18, and was under
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday filed a charge-sheet against Chirstian Michel, the alleged middleman in the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland helicopter deal. Michel’s name came up in the scam following
So the Congress party will once again be reduced to 44 seats in the Lok Sabha. The party’s strength had gone up to 45 seats after the victory of its candidate in Ratlam LS by-polls.
Thiruvananthapuram: A real estate company in Kerala has lodged an FIR against party president Sonia Gandhi over non-payment of dues amounting to Rs 2.8cr. FIR filed by Heather Constructions also names former Kerala chief
Congress leader and former chief minister of Chhattisgarh Ajit Jogi today came down hard on the functioning of the Congress party in the state and even went on to liken the party as the BJP’s B-team.
Stung by defections in Uttarakhand and Arunachal Pradesh, leaders of the ruling Congress government in Meghalaya have sent a three-page SOS to party president Sonia Gandhi accusing the opposition BJP of trying to destabilise the three-year-old Meghal
New Delhi: Amidst renewed speculation about elevation of Rahul Gandhi as the Congress president, HRD Minister Smriti Irani has said that any such development will be the ‘achche din’ for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in law Robert Vadra has come under spotlight for another wrong reason, this time, for his alleged link with controversial arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari.
New Delhi: Faced with voices of dissent within the party and rising calls for a shuffle in ranks, the Congress party now looks set to elevate vice-president Rahul Gandhi to the post of party president. According to sources, Rahul’s elevation could co
Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan today said "they (Cong) need not worry" as Modi will continue as PM for next 15 years.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi today launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying ‘he is a PM not a shahenshah’ and that all allegations levelled against her and family members are ‘baseless’ and part of the BJP’s campaign of a
The Income Tax department probe into the transactions of arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari has revealed that Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra may have been gifted a benami flat in London in 2009. The address of the property is – House
It seems that Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar is ramping down the attack against the Gandhi family in AgustaWestland case. The Defence Minister has now said that he never named Congress president Sonia Gandhi as an accused in the case as ‘there is
Kolkata: In the aftermath of the Congress'unmitigated rout in the recent assembly elections, the inner discontent have come to the fore with party leaders suggesting major surgery ( cosmetic or cardiac) to save the grand
The results of polls in Assam, Kerala, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu showed that decline of Congress since the Lok Sabha elections has not ebbed. When the Congress got a drubbing in the Lok Sabha in 2014, it had ruled in 13 states. But now it is down to
Suffering a debacle in the current round of Assembly elections, Congress hinted that party vice-president Rahul Gandhi could be elevated as party president.
The defeat in assembly polls to four major states on Thursday has come as a big disappointment to Congress and a dampener to its ambitions to replace the Narendra Modi government in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. The results could delay elevation of Congr
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