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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The Congress is in a predicament which is quite unlike that of any other party. It has lost its primacy of position at the national level and is struggling to remain relevant in a number
New Delhi: Logjam today continued over the GST between government and Congress, which dismissed as "all optics" Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu's meeting with party chief Sonia Gandhi to seek her support for its passage
New Delhi: As the deadlock over passage of the Good and Services Tax (GST) Bill continues, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and sought cooperation for the early
Ahmedabad: The son of the late Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, who was killed in the Gulbarg society violence, has refuted the claim by former Gujarat DGP RB Sreekumar in his book that Congress President Sonia
New Delhi: The process of the much-delayed organizational elections in Congress could get a fillip after the return of party vice president Rahul Gandhi from Europe next week amid indications that his much talked elevation
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi's official residence at 10, Janpath, is bigger than 7, Race Course Road, the residence of the Prime Minister of India, information given in response to an RTI application has
Pambady, Kerala: Congress president Sonia Gandhi today warned against forces which were trying to "re-write history" and denying India's glorious composite heritage.Gandhi while dedicating to the nation the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology at Pambady
Varkala (Kerala): In a veiled attack on BJP, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today said that attempts were being made to "capture" the legacy of renowned social reformer Sree Narayana Guru by "communal ideologies and individuals"
New Delhi: The Bharatya Janata Party (BJP) took a dig at the Congress for the criticism of Jawaharlal Nehru and party president Sonia Gandhi in its in-house publication 'Congress Darshan'.Speaking to media, senior party leader
Mumbai: City unit Congress chief Sanjay Nirupam on Monday came under intense criticism from his party over articles in a Congress mouthpiece slamming Jawaharlal Nehru and Sonia Gandhi's father, with a senior leader claiming that
Mumbai: Left red-faced by the articles in Congress mouthpiece targeting Jawaharlal Nehru and Sonia Gandhi, Mumbai Congress chief and journal's editor Sanjay Nirupam today apologised for the gaffe in the party's Maharashtra mouthpiece, ‘Congress Darshan'.
New Delhi: The Indian National Congress today celebrates its 131st foundation day.One of the largest and oldest political parties in the world, Congress was founded in 1885 during the British rule by Indian and British
New Delhi: Congress today marked its 131st Foundation Day with its president Sonia Gandhi hoisting the party flag at the AICC headquarters here.All the top leaders of the party including Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi,
Mumbai: As the Congress celebrates its 131st Foundation Day today, an article published in its mouthpiece, Congress Darshan, has caused a stir as it blames former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru for the state of affairs
New Delhi: A former top cop has claimed that Congress president Sonia Gandhi wanted to meet Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was lynched by a mob in the post-Godhra riots
New Delhi: Suspended BJP MP Kirti Azad today rejected suggestions that he raised the DDCA issue in the Lok Sabha on the “instructions” of Congress President Sonia Gandhi and said he had only supported his
New Delhi: Down in the dumps after the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Congress's consolation this year was sharing power in Bihar, thanks to the grand alliance, and the "victory" on the controversial land bill issue
New Delhi: Robert Vadra has criticised the exemptions granted to vehicles of VIPs by Delhi government in its 'even-odd scheme' to control pollution, saying all must adhere to the law."Odd and Even ways !! Creating
Bhopal: Protesting against proposed amendments in Whistle blowers Protection Act-2011, an RTI activist from Madhya Pradesh, who exposed the Vyapam scam, met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi over the issue. "We met Congress
New Delhi: Keeping aside their political differences, a galaxy of leaders including Vice-President Hamid Ansari, Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu, today attended the launch of a
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