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 AAP Wednesday announced that former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri's grandson Adarsh Shastri will contest the Lok Sabha election from Allahabad.Releasing the names of 19 more candidates, the Aam Aadmi Party also
New Delhi: Taking strong objection to Sonia Gandhi's appeal to Muslim leaders to ensure their votes are not split, BJP today termed it is a violation of the Model Code of Conduct and asked the
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi, 2G scam tainted A Raja of DMK and two Union Ministers were among candidates who filed nominations today for the sixth and seventh phases of Lok Sabha elections.Gandhi entered
Rae Bareli: Congress President Sonia Gandhi today rejected the BJP charge that that she was polarizing elections, calling it “absolutely a joke”.“We are not in the habit or in the game of polarising the elections,”
New Delhi: BJP leader Dr Subramanian Swamy today hit out at Congress president Sonia Gandhi for meeting Shahi Imam Bukhari and Christian leaders seeking votes in the name of religion for her party. Speaking to
New Delhi: Delhi Jama Masjid's mercurial Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari led a delegation of Muslim maulanas on Tuesday to meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who told them that she joined politics only in order to
Rae Bareli: Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who filed her nomination here today, has declared Rs 2,81,50,387 (Rs 2.81 cr) worth assets.According the affidavit filed before the Returning Officer of Rae Bareli, Sonia Gandhi has claimed
New Delhi: AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal Tuesday hit back at BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, saying if there was indeed a 'Modi wave' in India, then why was the Gujarat chief minister fighting the
Bhopal: As Narendra Modi's pictures eclipse other top BJP stalwarts on poll posters here, a senior party leader says it was compelled to project a single leader to gain political mileage.The posters with slogans like
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Monday said there was no 'Modi wave' in India, particularly in his state, and described the BJP assertion as a "hoax"."People in the state and elsewhere in
New Delhi: April 1 Actor-turned-politician Smriti Irani will be the BJP's candidate against Rahul Gandhi and apex court lawyer Ajay Aggarwal against Sonia Gandhi, the party announced Monday.Irani will face the Congress vice president in
New Delhi: Upset over Supereme Court commuting the death sentence of Khalistani terrorist Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, former Youth Congress chief M S Bitta today said that he would seek permission from party president Sonia
Rae Bareli: Congress President Sonia Gandhi will file her nomination papers for the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat here on April 2, party sources said today. Gandhi who will be seeking re-election from the seat,
New Delhi: Attacking Congress President Sonia Gandhi over her remarks on resignation of Arvind Kejriwal-led government in Delhi, AAP shot back saying it did not continue in office owing to lack of numbers required to
New Delhi: In a scathing attack on the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party, Sonia Gandhi today accused it of shying away from Delhi as it thought that running a government is a "child's play".Targeting Kejriwal,
Patna: Putting to rest all speculation over his party's joint campaign with Congress top leaders, RJD president Lalu Prasad today said he would not address the rallies of Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi in Bihar.
New Delhi: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi today launched a scathing attack on Narendra Modi, saying those who don't believe in secular values cannot grasp the spirit of patriotism, and will lead the country to destruction
New Delhi: With the first stage of balloting just ten days away, Congress president Sonia Gandhi's visible absence from the campaign trail is causing unease in the party.Although Congress spokesperson Sanjay Jha reiterated to the
Bhubaneswar : Sonia and Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi, star campaigners of the Congress and the BJP, will campaign for their party candidates in Odisha.While Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to arrive March
Jorhat (Assam): Among the most prestigious Lok Sabha seats in Assam, Jorhat will see six-time sitting Congress MP Bijoy Krishna Handique battle it out against BJP's Kamakhya Prasad Tasa, a tea tribe leader, and AGP's
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