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: India is unlikely to see the imposition of another Emergency due to changes made in the Constitution and people being more vigilant, veteran journalist and political commentator Kuldip Nayar has said, noting that
New Delhi: Indira Gandhi's private secretary RK Dhawan has said that no one from Gandhi-Nehru family can claim their innocence or ignorance at the time of Emergency in 1975.Dhawan claimed that Rajiv Gandhi and his
New Delhi : Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday condemned the terror attack on Afghan parliament, calling it a "heinous attempt by fundamentalists to subvert democratic forces".Expressing deep concern over a string of explosions in
Patna : A case was filed on Saturday against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ashwani Kumar Choubey for making offensive remarks about Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi, a Bihar government lawyer
Nawada, Bihar: BJP parliamentarian Ashwini Kumar Choubey has described Congress president Sonia Gandhi as the demonic mythical character 'Putana' and called Rahul Gandhi a parrot. He also attacked Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and RJD president
Shimla: President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday left for New Delhi after a five-day sojourn here in the Himachal Pradesh capital.He flew to Delhi from the Kalyani helipad near Chharabra, 15 km from here.Mukherjee was seen
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi is leaving no stone unturned in emerging as a true alternative to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Unfortunately, there are certain facts that put him at disadvantage compared to PM Modi.Let's have a
New Delhi: Politics has always been male dominated like other fields in India. Participation of female in this complex world is not so desirable, but Females have come out to be the super power of
New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today rubbished the claims made by the Narendra Modi government on economic revival.He said that the Congress does not need to be defensive since many of its initiatives
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi today met the Chief Ministers of all Congress-ruled states. The meeting was called to deliberate on the formulation of a political strategy to take on the NDA government.The meeting
New Delhi: A meeting of Congress chief ministers, the first since the party lost the Lok Sabha elections last year, began here on Tuesday.Participants in the meeting are likely to discuss "economic mismanagement" and "anti-people"
Guntur (AP): Under attack over his alleged bribe offer, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today accused his Telangana counterpart K Chandrasekhar Rao of conspiring against him and called Sonia Gandhi a "betrayer" for
New Delhi: RJD President Lalu Prasad is likely to meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi today to discuss the issue of alliance for Bihar polls, a day after Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar held consultations in
New Delhi: RJD President Lalu Prasad is likely to meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi tomorrow to discuss the issue of alliance for Bihar polls, a day after Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar held consultations in
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi today wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagging the "distressing rise" in incidents of Dalit atrocities and demanded that a bill to prevent such crimes is brought in the
New Delhi: In an attempt to reclaim lost ground among Dalits ahead of crucial Bihar and UP polls, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today asked partymen to undertake year-round vigorous programmes to mark the 125th birth
Bhubaneswar: Nine-time Congress MP and former Odisha Chief Minister Giridhar Gamang today quit the party alleging humiliation and also appeared to send signals that he was keen on joining BJP.Announcing his decision at a press
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram today rejected Prime Minister Narendra Modi's veiled charge that Sonia Gandhi was an “unconstitutional authority” and instead accused the BJP and the government of “running to” RSS with
Raebareli (UP): Congress President Sonia Gandhi today met families of the victims of the Bachrawan train accident that had left over 30 dead and assured them of all possible help.Gandhi, who arrived here this morning
BJP to celebrate Jan Kalyan Parv all over IndiaDelhi: BJP celebrates Jan Kalyan Parv all over India on completion of one year of Modi Government with programme of union ministers/MPs to highlight the government's achievements.Sonia
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