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 today exercised her franchise in the Delhi Assembly polls in which her party is facing a tough battle to regain lost ground.Gandhi cast her vote at a polling booth
New Delhi: In a move which is going to affect the smooth functioning of the Central Information Commission (CIC) the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) has asked the panel to either do away with
Los Angeles: Actress-director Angelina Jolie has been named the most admired woman in the world, leaving behind Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, Hillary Clinton, Queen Elizabeth II and even India's Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.According
New Delhi: TNCC President E V K S Elangovan today remained unfazed over reports that the Congress high command reprimanded him over his reported attack on P Chidambaram and his son and refused to withdraw
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi today slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, saying one was a “pracharak” and the other a “dharnebaaj”, as she asked voters to save Delhi from
New Delhi: With just days left for the Delhi Assembly elections, all the political parties from the Aam Aadmi Party to the Congress, and the Bharatiya Janata Party are sparing no effort to woo the
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi will join the high-pitched battleground in Delhi to campaign for the party for the upcoming Assembly elections.Gandhi will address a rally at Meethapur Chowk in Badarpur constituency seat on
New Delhi: Narendra Modi pays his respect at Rajghat, a memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, on his death anniversary in New Delhi. AP photo Mahatma Gandhi was today fondly remembered on his 67th death anniversary with President
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu unit of the Congress has been taken by surprise by the outpourings of former union environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan to party president Sonia Gandhi."I am reading her (Natarajan's) letter published by
New Delhi: Here goes the full text of the letter that senior Congress leader Jayanthi Natarajan has written to the Congress President Sonia Gandhi:Hon'ble Smt. Sonia Gandhi,President, Indian National CongressNovember 5, 2014Madam, I write to
Jammu: The National Conference will back Congress' Ghulam Nabi Azad in the Feb 7 Rajya Sabha elections for four seats in Jammu and Kashmir.This was decided after an hour long meeting between National Conference leader
New Delhi: With the rain playing spoilsport, the dignitaries gathered at Rajpath to witness India's 66th Republic Day parade were forced to wear caps and take cover under umbrellas and raincoats.US President Barack Obama, the
New Delhi: The issue of operationalising the bilateral landmark civil nuclear deal and cooperation in multiple sectors between India and US were understood to have figured as Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vice President Hamid Ansari and Congress President Sonia Gandhi today paid rich tributes to legendary cartoonist R K Laxman, who died in Pune.“India will miss you RK Laxman. We
New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Monday greeted the people on the 66th Republic Day."Wishing everyone a happy Republic Day," he said."On this Republic Day, let us renew our commitment to the values enshrined
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi's close aide Vincent George was on Wednesday discharged by a court here following the Delhi High Court order quashing the criminal proceedings against him in a 13-year-old disproportionate assets
New Delhi: The Central Information Commission (CIC) has issued another notice to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi asking her to explain why her party has not complied with the directives of a panel about responding to
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi achieved a "double win" in 2004 by choosing Manmohan Singh to be prime minister as she silenced questions about her Italian origins while having more power as party chief,
New Delhi: As a book offering "dramatised biography" of Congress president Sonia Gandhi hit stands in India, the party on Friday asserted it could take legal action if the contents of the book were "objectionable".Congress
New Delhi: Publisher Roli Books, set to release Congress president Sonia Gandhi's biography, Friday said the book was never banned in India but its Spanish publisher had found "the atmosphere was not right" to publish
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