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:The Union government will convene a special session of parliament to pass the goods and services tax (GST) bill - a constitutional amendment - only after a consensus is achieved among all political parties,
New Delhi: Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, has welcomed the government's move to strip him off the privilege of not being frisked at airports, saying he had been waiting for this as
New Delhi: The nation today fondly remembered former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 71st birth anniversary with President Pranab Mukherjee and other leaders paying tributes to him.Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari, Rajiv Gandhi's wife
New Delhi: In a huge relief to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is likely to close the National Herald case.The ED has decided to close the case
New Delhi: Congress on Saturday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Independence Day speech, saying he omitted many key issues like terrorism and foreign policy and disappointed ex-servicemen on OROP, though the party's top leadership did
By allowing parliament to function on the penultimate day of the monsoon session and participating for a while in a debate on the Lalit Modi affair, the Congress' mother-and-son leadership has shown it is something
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has slammed Congress President Sonia Gandhi for hitting a new low during Monsoon session of parliament.In his latest blog titled “THE MONSOON SESSION - IS IT INDIA'S LOSS?”
New Delhi: A remark against her by a BJP member on Wednesday angered Sonia Gandhi who rushed into the well of the Lok Sabha along with her party colleagues, protesting vigorously and forcing abrupt adjournment
New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday said the ruling BJP was trying to project that non-passage of GST Bill was a reason for the government's "poor performance" and cover up its "economic failures" by blaming
New Delhi: As Congress stalled the GST Bill in Rajya Sabha, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today hit out at Sonia and Rahul Gandhi saying they had taken the defeat in 2014 elections badly and were
New Delhi: As disruptions rocked the last week of Parliament's Monsoon's session, Government today singled out Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and her deputy Rahul Gandhi for stalling the House, saying not many of its leaders
New Delhi: Opening another front to attack the Narendra Modi government, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday accused it of diluting tribal land rights and reducing budgetary allocations for health care and other developmental programmes
Mumbai: BJP yesterday claimed that Sonia Gandhi and Rahul were not allowing the resumption of business in Parliament even though many of their party leaders wanted the protest on the floor to be called off. "Many
Thiruvananthapuram: A day after hitting hard at Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi over the Lalit Modi issue, BJP today accused Congress of making 'baseless accusations for personal political gains' and 'running away' from debate in Parliament. Congress was not ready
New Delhi: BJP today used the dynasty stick to hit back at Rahul Gandhi over his charge that Sushma Swaraj's family received money from former IPL boss Lalit Modi, saying people from "common families" have
New Delhi: Rajya Sabha proceedings were disrupted again today as protesting Congress members trooped into the well raising slogans against ‘dictatorial' attitude of the government in suspending 25 of their Lok Sabha MPs. Soon after
New Delhi: Launching a scathing attack against Union Minister for External affairs Sushma Swaraj in Lalitgate case, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today asked her to disclose the amount of money Lalit Modi paid her family
New Delhi: BJP today accused Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and her deputy Rahul Gandhi of "continuously encouraging rude, indecent and indecorous behaviour" of their party members and asked them to "apologise" to the Speaker for
J&K terror attack: Govt hands over probe to NIA, Pak denies its roleNew Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today took over the case of yesterday's Udhampur terror strike in which a Pakistani terrorist, who
New Delhi: BJP today slammed Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on her criticism of the Centre over the Naga accord, wondering whose interests her party was serving by not standing with the government on a national
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