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: Congress president Sonia Gandhi will meet President Pranab Mukherjee today to bring his attention towards 'growing intolerance' in the country. Reports say that Sonia, along with her son and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, will
Muzaffarpur/Gopalganj: In a sharp counter-attack on Nitish Kumar over his "outsider" jibe at him, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asked him whether he would call Congress chief Sonia Gandhi also a 'bahri', asserting that he
New Delhi: Targetting Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, the BJP on Thursday alleged that 'Young India', a company in which Congress President and her son are said to have majority stake, had borrowed a sum of
Bengaluru: Launching a scathing attack on Congress president Sonia Gandhi for accusing the Modi government of trying to impose its ideology on people, Union Minister and senior BJP leader Prakash Javadekar yesterday said Congress was
Buxar (Bihar): Accusing Narendra Modi government of trying to impose its ideology on people, Sonia Gandhi today said communal frenzy is being created, innocents are killed on rumours and intellectuals are targeted under its rule
New Delhi: Delhi High Court on Thursday termed as "infructuous" the applications moved by Congress President Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul and some other party leaders alleging a "different treatment" was meted out to a
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi moved the Delhi High court seeking the transfer of hearing in the national herald case to the judge who had earlier heard the arguments
Bhagalpur : Thanks to Bihar's known caste equations, the "Grand Alliance" appears to be sitting pretty in most of Bhagalpur's seven assembly constituencies. This is bad news for the BJP.Political activists admit that social engineering
New Delhi: A rare video of Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Maino's wedding is going viral on You Tube.The video was published by British Movietone on July 21, 2015. This black-and-white video is from the archives
New York : India's Finance Minister Arun Jaitley blamed the mindset of 1971 that believed in slogans and redistribution rather than growth and higher productivity for the lost opportunities of the last decade and said
New Delhi: Justice Sunil Gaur has recused himself from hearing the appeal filed by Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi to quash the summons issued by trial court in the National Herald
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi is unlikely to share the stage with Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav during ongoing campaign for the Bihar Assembly polls.A Times
Gaya/Bhagalpur: Congress president Sonia Gandhi today launched scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying and is an expert in packaging and repackaging and has tried to mislead the people of Bihar."Prime Minister Narendra Modi
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi will today address two election rallies in Bihar.As per the schedule, Sonia will address the first rally at Kahalgaon near Bhagalpur. Polling here will be done in the first
New Delhi: With the Congress-RJD-JD(U) 'grand alliance' facing a tough challenge in Bihar, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi will address a series of rallies in the state next month ahead of
Rahul Gandhi's photos adorn the shoulders of mainstream newspapers but he is in Aspen, Colorado, apparently to attend a conference. BJP spokesman Sambit Patra made a valid point: Rahul has never attended such intellectually challenging
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi today took on the Narendra Modi government at party's 'Kisan Mazdoor Samman' rally in national capital.Addressing the crowd, Sonia said that that the party has won the land bill
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate may now register a complaint of money laundering in the National Herald case, days after a senior official of the agency had noted that there was no case made out
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra, who is in the elite "no frisking" list at the domestic airports, on Monday pressed the Government to take his name off the list."Plan to visit
New Delhi: The Civil Aviation Ministry has no plans to remove the name of Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra from the elite "no-frisking" list at domestic airports."We are not withdrawing Robert Vadra's name
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