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: Former external affairs minister K. Natwar Singh has raked up the issue of Italian origins of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, stating that no Indian would have treated a loyalist the way he was
New Delhi: Jumping into the ongoing controversy over the allegations made against Sonia Gandhi by Natwar Singh in his yet to be published autobiography, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has clarified that no files were
New Delhi: In her first reaction to the allegations leveled against Gandhi family by former Congress leader Natwar Singh in his autobiography, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today said that she will write her own book
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi did not become prime minister in May 2004 because her son Rahul Gandhi did not want her to take up the responsibility as he was afraid that she would
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi have challenged the summons issued to them by Patiala House court in National Herald case.Sonia and Rahul have filed a case in Delhi Hight court
New Delhi: A number of BJP leaders, including Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Home Minister Rajnath Singh, today attended a lunch hosted by party leader Shahnawaz Hussain to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr.Other Union Ministers like M Venkaiah
New Delhi: The home ministry Monday denied the reported bugging at union Minister Nitin Gadkari's residence, and ruled out any probe.Asked about the bugging, union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said: "There is no contradiction, Gadkari
Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar told party leaders of Maharashtra unit here that the decision on seat sharing for the Assembly polls would be taken by him and Congress president Sonia Gandhi.Pawar
New Delhi: The Congress party is not entitled to the post of Leader of the Opposition, according to the government's top lawyer, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi. Rohatgi has conveyed this to Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra
New Delhi: It won't be “business as usual” in the Congress after the severe drubbing in the elections and party president Sonia Gandhi would soon fix accountability and take decisions on revamping the party, former
New Delhi: With speculations over fresh elections in Delhi, two Congress MLAs tonight met party president Sonia Gandhi and are understood to have requested her to bring back Sheila Dikshit to lead the party. Sources
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will now finalise his cabinet rejig with the Congress high command in Delhi, a senior party leader said on Tuesday.Chandy will reach Delhi Wednesday and will finalise the additions
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will now finalise his cabinet rejig with the Congress high command in Delhi, a senior party leader said Tuesday.Chandy will reach Delhi Wednesday and will finalise the additions and
Nagpur: Congress MP and ex-Union minister Vilas Muttemwar has urged party President Sonia Gandhi to take up the issue of separate Vidarbha with the Narendra Modi government at the Centre to revive its electoral chances
New Delhi: From poring over the rule book to shoring up their knowledge and participating in debates and discussions in the house, the 314 first-time MPs in the 545-member Lok Sabha are leaving no opportunities
New Delhi: Ashok Khemka, an IAS officer of the Haryana cadre who had cancelled mutation of a land deal involving Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra, may be deputed to the central government in
New Delhi: Uproar was witnessed today in the Lok Sabha as several parties got together to demand a resolution to condemn Israeli raids in Gaza Strip but the government did not oblige.Members of Congress, Trinamool
Bangalore: Hitting out at the Congress, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu today said it should not politicise the issue of Leader of Opposition status in Lok Sabha.“Till day before yesterday, they had not asked for
New Delhi: The sum for expenses of union ministers has been increased by 15.4 percent in the current fiscal.The union budget 2014-15, presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in parliament Thursday proposed Rs.433 crore for
New Delhi: Former prime minister Manmohan Singh Thursday said the 2014-15 union budget presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley lacked roadmaps for achieving its objectives."Just like the railway budget, there are no specifics in this
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