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At a glance: Sonia Gandhi - from Italy's village girl to India's most powerful lady

New Delhi: Sonia Gandhi, the Congress president, is undoubtedly the most powerful lady of India today. An Italian by birth, Sonia's meteoric rise from a next-door village girl of Italy  to India's most powerful lady

India TV News Desk India TV News Desk Updated on: September 16, 2013 6:27 IST
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at a glance sonia gandhi from italy s village girl to india s most powerful lady

New Delhi: Sonia Gandhi, the Congress president, is undoubtedly the most powerful lady of India today.




An Italian by birth, Sonia's meteoric rise from a next-door village girl of Italy  to India's most powerful lady has all the ingredients of a best-selling fiction.
 
Born as Edvige Antonia Albina Maino in 1946, Sonia hailed from the working-class strata of Italian society. Her father was a building mason.
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