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: Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh has found fault with the “timing” of Rahul Gandhi's sabbatical but defended his decision to take time out to reflect in the wake of a string of electoral
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has written a letter to Himachal Pradesh government requesting not to disclose the details of her property she owns in the state.She stated that divulging
New Delhi: Congress has told its state units to merge all the real estate owned by the party and form trusts to manage them. The move will make it the largest land owner in politics
New Delhi: Congress vice president will miss part of the Budget session as he has taken leave of absence.He has taken this decision to stay away from active politics for some time to reflect upon
New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will miss the first part of the Budget session as he wants to stay away from active politics for some time to reflect upon the party's humiliating defeats
New Delhi: President Sonia Gandhi was today unimpressed with the President's Address, which laid the roadmap of the Narendra Modi government, saying there was "nothing new" in it and talked about only some revamped UPA
New Delhi: In order to get six different ordinances including the land-acquisition and FDI in insurance sector approved by the parliament ; M Venkaiah Naidu, parliamentary affairs minister, on Sunday visited Congress chief Sonia Gandhi
New Delhi: Ahead of the crucial AICC session expected in April, party Vice President Rahul Gandhi has desired to reflect upon “recent events” and the future course of the party.Party sources tonight said he has
A report published in The Times of India suggests that some airports have begun blanking out the name of Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law, Robert Vadra, from the list of those exempt from frisking before
New Delhi: Ahead of the Budget session, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today met senior party colleagues to discuss the strategy to be adopted in Parliament where the government intends to pass a number of bills,
Hyderabad: Congress President Sonia Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking him to to ensure that Special Status is granted to the State of Andhra Pradesh.In a letter to the prime minister yesterday,
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi has no plans as of now to convene a meeting of non-NDA parties ahead of the Budget session of Parliament starting Feb 23 though the Opposition is raring to
New Delhi: In an unexpected turn of events, the Narendra Modi-led NDA government is considering to approach Congress president Sonia Gandhi to help move fresh bills in the Upper House of the parliament in order
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday declined BJP leader Subramanian Swamy's plea for an early hearing in a case against Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son and party vice president Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi: Days after former environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan quit alleging interference in the running of the ministry, her predecessor Jairam Ramesh said he faced no interference from Congress top officials in the running of
New Delhi: An open war today broke out in Congress over its whitewash in Delhi elections with Sheila Dikshit attacking party's face in the polls Ajay Maken, forcing party President Sonia Gandhi to intervene to
A temple in name of PM Narendra Modi in India is not shocking, but the fact that it took so much time for it to come up is more surprising to us.PM Narendra Modi woke
New Delhi: Embarrassed by the unprecedented rout in Delhi Assembly polls, Congress today admitted it “could not gauge” the mood of the people.“I am shattered by the disappointing performance of the party. I could not
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi and party Vice President Rahul Gandhi today congratulated Arvind Kejriwal for AAP's landslide victory in the Delhi Assembly polls in which their party failed to score.“My congratulations to Arvind
New Delhi: Vice President Hamid Ansari, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal, BJP's Chief Ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi and Union Minister Harsh Vardhan were among the early voters in the Delhi Assembly polls where all eyes are
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