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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Verinag (J&K): Jammu and Kashmir minister Gulam Ahmed Mir today appealed to the electorate to vote for secular parties to sweep away communal forces from the country and said Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi “is
Islampur (WB): Narendra Modi has “crossed all limits in misleading people in his bid to get to the prime minister's chair”, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today said continuing her tirade against the BJP's prime ministerial
Rae Bareli: Congress's star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi Tuesday is campaigning for Sonia Gandhi in Rae Bareli. She addressed a rally which comprised of a huge crowd who cheered for the Gandhi family. She expressed grief
Hardoi/Etah (Uttar Pradesh): BJP leader Narendra Modi Monday said in Hardoi all corrupt leaders in the country would have to face trial if he is voted to power in the Lok Sabha elections.Speaking at an
Chennai: AIADMK general secretary J.Jayalalithaa Sunday charged the Congress-led government at the centre with betraying the interests of fishermen.Addressing an election rally here, the Tamil Nadu chief minister said: "The fishing community knows it is
Mumbai: UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has cancelled her one-day Maharashtra tour citing health reasons. The Congress president was to address three election rallies, first in Dhule, followed by Nandurbar and Mumbai. However, Congress has refused
Kakoijan (Assam): BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi today fired a fresh salvo at Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, saying the country cannot be run by “remote control” and the mother-son duo will have to
Amethi: Countering BJP leader Narendra Modi's attack on graft issue, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today said those levelling allegations against Congress were “neck-deep” in corruption and challenged BJP to tell what action its governments in
Neemuch, MP: Taking the battle to the home-turf of BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today alleged that about half the population in Gujarat lacked access to drinking water, and malnourishment
Raipur: Without naming Narendra Modi, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today said the democracy cannot be safe in the hands of a single person, and BJP was crossing all limits in its quest for the power.Addressing
New Delhi: Narendra Modi today today attacked Sonia Gandhi over her assertion that Congress stood for democratic values, citing the ruling party's “refusal” to consult BJP in selecting the country's President and former PM Indira
Amethi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi will be arriving here on April 19 to address an election rally for her son Rahul Gandhi, the party's vice-president and candidate from the high-profile constituency here. It would be
Kanyakumari (TN): Stepping up her attack against BJP and Narendra Modi, Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday said they represented a dangerous combination of religious fanaticism, power and money and asked the country to reject the "ambition
Karimnagar: Kickstarting her election campaign in Telangana, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today sought to take full credit for her party for creation of the new state and trained her guns on TRS for speaking the
Kanyakumari (Tamil Nadu): Dismissing as “false propaganda” that Congress was not concerned about Tamils in Sri Lanka, Sonia Gandhi today raised the emotional issue of her husband Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, saying the former prime minister
Bhagalpur (Bihar): Narendra Modi today used the book authored by Prime Minister's former media adviser to mock at Manmohan Singh and targeted Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, saying they wielded the real power instead of
Kolkata: Congress president Sonia Gandhi, party vice president Rahul Gandhi, senior BJP leader L.K. Advani and party president Rajnath Singh will hit the campaign trail for the Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal.According to a
New Delhi: The BJP will ruin the essence of "Bharatiyata" and "Hindustaniyat", Congress president Sonia Gandhi said Monday, urging people to "chose the right path".In a video message posted on the Congress website, Gandhi said
Amethi: Priyanka Gandhi today fired yet another salvo at her cousin Varun Gandhi, saying the Lok Sabha elections is “an ideological war and not a family tea party”. Even as Varun hit back at her
Amethi (UP): Priyanka Gandhi today said that only Manmohan Singh was the “super Prime Minister” in UPA government, amid a storm over Sanjaya Baru's tell-all book that raised questions over the political authority of the
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