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 Congress accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of spreading the “poison” of communalism and asked party men to fight those out to demolish Jawaharlal Nehru's “liberal India”, intensifying the battle over his legacy.While
New Delhi: Congress on Sunday kept away from the oath-taking ceremony of 21 new Ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Council of Ministers.“Both Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh were invited to the ceremony,” Power Minister
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi visited former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday to congratulate him for being conferred with one of the highest civilian honours of Japan.Singh was
Srinagar: Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad was Friday appointed as the Chairman of its campaign committee for Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, which gets underway on November 25.The appointment of Azad, who is
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi today asked her party's faction-ridden Tamil Nadu unit to shun groupism and strive for strengthening the organization at the grassroots level.During an hour-long meeting the TNCC delegation led by
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi today congratulated former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh upon being awarded Japan's high civilian order - The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers.“A rare and well-deserved recognition
Robert Vadra, the super loveable Damaad of Gandhi family hogged the limelight away from them but for all the bad reasons.His recent act of pushing away ANI reporter and throwing the mike is the most
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Sunday expressed shock and dismay over the suicide attack at Wagah border in Pakistan and condemned the "extremist elements" behind such "inhuman acts".Gandhi extended her condolences to the
New Delhi: Days after reports quoted her as having lavished praises on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former Delhi Chief Minister and Congress leader Sheila Dikshit has now said that she was not impressed by him.
New Delhi: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi will not attend next month's anointment ceremony of the son of Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid, Syed Ahmed Bukhari.A Congress spokesman said that there was no information about
New Delhi: The nation today remembered former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 30th death anniversary with President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari and other leaders paying tributes to her. Mukherjee, Congress President Sonia
Chennai: In a sudden development, Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC)president B S Gnanadesikan, a loyalist of former Union Minister G K Vasan, resigned from his post today, complaining that he was ignored.“Yes, I have sent
New Delhi: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy has claimed that Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi are in the list of people who have stashed black money in foreign
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday said that Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi should “speak more” and put in action a timetable that would enable the party to play the role of
Chandigarh: Congress, which was eyeing a record third term in Haryana on development plank, could win only three of six assembly seats where party president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi held election rallies
New Delhi: With Congress losing power in Maharashtra and Haryana, its President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi said the party will now play a "constructive and vigilant role" in the two states where
Mumbai: Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee president Manikrao Thakre today quit his post owning moral responsibility for the party's defeat in the Assembly elections.Addressing a press conference here, Manikrao Thakre said he had sent his resignation
Bhopal: AICC expelled senior functionary Gufran-e-Azam for indulging in Anti-party activities ever since the Congress met its fall in the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections.What compelled the Congress high command to take this extreme step was
New Delhi: As the Congress Party sacked Congress MP Shashi Tharoor from the post of party's spokesperson for praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP seized the opportunity to ridicule the party for its unusual
New Delhi: Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi today met Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who praised the work of his organisation “Bachpan Bachao Andolan”. Satyarthi went along with his wife Sumedha and some other office
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