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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Kolkata: BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu Sunday said that Congress chief Sonia Gandhi had called on the Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed Bukhari as she was "frustrated" with the lectoral scenario and predicted
Bhopal: BJP vice president Uma Bharti today said that while the issue of Ram temple is a matter of faith for the party, the issue of development and backwardness is a major plank in the
New Delhi: The Congress and the AAP Saturday rapped on the Election Commission's door against BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's close aide Amit Shah over his remark on the Muzaffarnagar riots. The Bharatiya Janata
Thiruvananthapuram: Every vote for the CPI-M in Kerala would end up helping the BJP when it comes to the big electoral picture. This was Congress star campaigner Rahul Gandhi's main thrust during his campaign blitz
Bhandara/Nagpur (Maharashtra): After nearly 15 years, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and NCP chief Sharad Pawar Saturday shared the dais as they jointly campaigned for UPA candidates in Maharashtra.The uncertainties of the Lok Sabha election apparently
Nagpur: Congress president Sonia Gandhi today said the upcoming Lok Sabha elections is a clash between ideologies of hatred propagated by the BJP-led opposition and that of secularism championed by Congress. “The BJP-led opposition is
Khariar (Odisha): Congress President Sonia Gandhi today attacked the ruling BJD in Odisha accusing it of indulging in large-scale corruption in mining sector and social welfare schemes.Addressing her first poll rally in poverty-stricken Nuapada district,
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today accused Congress President Sonia Gandhi of playing a communal card and said the strategy would hardly help the party's fortune in the state for the coming Lok Sabha
Khariar (Odisha): Refuting Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's allegations of Centre's negligence towards the state, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today accused BJD government of rampant corruption and inefficiency, besides inability to contain rising crimes against
What kind of a deal the Congress struck with Shahi Imam Ahmed Bukhari in Delhi is not known. But the gist of what transpired in the meeting between Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Bukhari is
Khariar (Odisha): Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP's PM candidate Narendra Modi today caution people of Odisha against falling into the trap of those who are making big promises.Addressing an election rally at Khariar in Odisha,
New Delhi: Denouncing UPA government as a “failure” on all fronts, BJP today came out with a scathing “charge-sheet” on its 10-year rule that accused Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi of being equally guilty of
New Delhi: Muslim leader Syed Ahmed Bukhari Friday announced his support for the Congress in the upcoming Lok Sabha election."I had a detailed discussion with (Congress president) Sonia Gandhi on various issues related to Muslims.
Ranchi: In one of her strongest attacks on BJP star Narendra Modi, Congress president Sonia Gandhi Friday asked people not to elect "a big liar" as the country's next prime minister.Without taking Modi's name, Gandhi
Jammu: The Election Commission has sought a report from the civil aviation ministry over the alleged deliberate delay in allowing Narendra Modi's chopper to take off from Delhi, but has not received any complaint about
Bhubaneswar: Congress president Sonia Gandhi and BJP leader Sushma Swaraj will visit Odisha to campaign for their party candidates.Gandhi will first visit the state April 5 and address an election rally in Nuapada district where
Ghaziabad/Kurukshetra/Gurgaon: Narendra Modi today targeted Sonia Gandhi over her meeting with the Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid and brought her son-in-law Robert Vadra in the line of fire on his controversial land deals. Addressing
Patna: Congress president Sonia Gandhi Thursday said that the UPA government fulfilled most of the promises made to the people in the last Lok Sabha polls and was committed to work hard to improve the
Ghaziabad: BJP's prime ministerial hopeful Narendra Modi Thursday accused the Congress of "playing the communal card" to win votes in the Lok Sabha election."We are secular and we want development," Modi told an election rally
Rae Bareli: Congress president Sonia Gandhi does not have a car of her own and has sworn that she has Rs.85,000 in cash.This and more has been revealed in her affidavit filed before the returning
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