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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Jaipur, Jan 19: Shaken by the brutal gangrape incident of Delhi, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday made a strong pitch for starting women empowerment from home. "Mothers should teach their boys how to respect
Jaipur, Jan 18: Congress president Sonia Gandhi Friday expressed concern that “competitors” were making inroads into the party's traditional support bases.“The Congress is facing increased competition and inroads have been made into its traditional support
Jaipur, Jan 18 : With beheading of an Indian soldier clearly weighing on her mind, Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi today said India's dialogue with immediate neighbours must be based on accepted principles of civilised behaviour,
Jaipur, Jan 18 : Congress chief Sonia Gandhi Friday urged party leaders to understand the “new India”, not to alienate the middle class while honestly assessing its “strengths and weaknesses” as she set the tone
New Delhi, Jan 16: Congresss will come out with a “Jaipur Declaration” at its brainstorming session and the AICC meet concluding on Sunday charting the course of action at a time when Lok Sabha polls
New Delhi, Jan 7: Anurag Thakur, the chief of BJP youth wing, has strongly refuted media reports that he had called Congress president a ‘witch' on his Facebook account. Thakur said he had nothing to
Panaji, Jan 5: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar Friday said Congress president Sonia Gandhi was still an Italian national.BJP leader Parrikar was defending his legislator Glenn Ticlo from the Aldona constituency, who has been accused
New Delhi, Dec 31: Congress President Sonia Gandhi will not be celebrating the New Year in view of the gangrape incident in the national capital."Sonia Gandhi has appealed to partymen and well-wishers against coming to
New Delhi, Dec 29: Promising swift and fitting punishment for the Delhi gang-rape accused, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today said the nation's “beloved daughter” will get justice and her fight will not go in vain.“As
New Delhi, Dec 28: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi Friday assured quick justice to the culprits behind the gang-rape of a trainee physiotherapist, now battling for life in a Singapore hospital."You
New Delhi, Dec 23: A group of protesting youths, agitating against the gangrape of a 23-year-old, today met Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi here during which the Congress top leaders assured speedy action while refusing
Shimla, Dec 20: As initial trends indicated a Congress victory in Himachal Pradesh, party veteran Virbhadra Singh today said that he had put in his "best efforts" in the polls and it was for Sonia
New Delhi, Dec 19: Samajawadi Party (SP) leader Yashvir Singh Wednesday snatched a copy of the bill on quota in promotions from Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office V. Narayanasamy in the Lok
New Delhi, Dec 19: Congress president Sonia Gandhi Tuesday expressed horror at the gang rape of the 23-year-old girl and asked Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit to take urgent
New Delhi, Dec 19: Congress president Sonia Gandhi Tuesday night visited Safdarjung Hospital here and met doctors treating the 23-year-old girl who was tortured and raped on a moving bus here.According to hospital officials, Gandhi
New Delhi, Dec 18 : Congress President Sonia Gandhi today asked the government to take the strictest possible measures to ensure that there is no recurrence of incidents like the barbaric gangrape of a 23-year-old
New Delhi, dec 15: Congress president Sonia Gandhi today launched a major food security programme of Delhi Government under which monthly cash subsidy of Rs 600 will be transferred directly into Aadhaar-linked bank account of
Ahmedabad, Dec 15: UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, on a campaign trail in Gujarat, Friday inspected a sample house of ‘Ghar nu Ghar'(own your own home), a promise the Congress has made to the people here
Gandhinagar, Dec 14: Breaking into Gujarati to ask people to vote for her party, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said Friday that the Narendra Modi led government was misleading people in the name of development and
New Delhi, Dec 11: Wary of misinterpretation of his yesterday's statement, Congress spokesman P C Chacko today said the role of Rahul Gandhi in the next Lok Sabha elections will be decided by the Congress
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