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: Congress president Sonia Gandhi Saturday visited junior HRD Minister Shashi Tharoor's house and condoled the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar, party sources said.Gandhi went to the Lodhi Estate residence of Tharoor and
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi Friday firmly told clamouring party leaders and activists that the decision not to field Rahul Gandhi as the prime ministerial candidate was final.As Congress workers raised slogans at the
New Delhi: India today declared itself a polio-free country for the third consecutive year without a single new case of the disease and termed it as a "monumental milestone"."It is a matter of pride for
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Sunday invoked the legacy of Swami Vivekananda while asking people to battle against religious fanaticism of all hues that threatens the region, in comments that could be seen
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi today invoked the legacy of Swami Vivekananda while asking people to battle against religious fanaticism of all hues that threatens the region. . In her address at the commemoration
New Delhi: Congress appears to be in two minds on the issue of alliance in Bihar despite top leaders of the party having met both RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan
New Delhi: LJP leader Ram Vilas Paswan today met Congress President Sonia Gandhi to discuss the issue of a poll alliance in Bihar.Both LJP and RJD are aiming to ally with the Congress ahead of
New Delhi: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has at last agreed to become the PM candidate for Congress in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections after much persuasion by party president Sonia Gandhi and sister Priyanka Vadra,
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi has appointed screening committees for different states to shortlist candidates for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Bhubaneshwar Kalita has been appointed chairman of screening committee for Himachal Pradesh, Jammu
New Delhi: RJD chief Lalu Prasad today met Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and later vowed not to repeat the 2009 mistake of allowing breakdown of alliance with Congress.After the nearly 10-minute meeting, Prasad said Gandhi
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi today said, media was free to point out "mistakes" by Congress-ruled governments, but it should also look at corruption in state governments run by other parties as well. Speaking
New Delhi: It was a letter from UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi to Prime Minister Manomohan Singh on the suspension of Noida SDM Durga Nagpal that apparently prompted the government to consider changes in All India
Ahmedabad: Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel yesterday asked party workers in Gujarat to gear up for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls and advised them not to get bogged down by electoral setbacks.Victory and defeat are
Lucknow: Swami Ramdev has announced that he will actively campaign against UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi in upcoming parliamentary elections in order to ensure their defeat Announcing this at an event
New York: Congress president has been asked by a US federal court to respond to a Sikh body's charges of protecting and shielding party leaders allegedly involved in the anti-Sikh riots of 1984.Sikhs for Justice
New Delhi: Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi today condoled the passing away of Union Labour and Employment Minister Sis Ram Ola, who died at a Gurgaon hospital
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal has raised following 18 issues in his letters to Sonia Gandhi and Rajnath Singh:1. The VIP culture should be stopped in Delhi. No MLA, minister or Delhi
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal has written letters to the Congress President Sonia Gandhi and BJP president Rajnath Singh seeking their support for the Jan Lok Pal draft bill. This is what
New Delhi: Amid the storm over the Supreme Court verdict on gay rights issue, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi today expressed disappointment over the order, signalling that Parliament would address the matter.Homosexuality is
New Delhi: The Centre is seriously considering bringing an ordinance to legalise gay sex rights, as a large section of public opinion has raised its pitch against the Supreme Court verdict holding gay sex as
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