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.
Read MoreCongress leader Sonia Gandhi is likely to be party's Rajya Sabha candidate from Rajasthan, sources said on Monday.
The India Alliance formed in opposition to Modi is becoming a victim of the politics of mutual antagonism... Why did Mamata Banerjee keep distance from her publicly in Bengal... then everyone parted ways one by one.
Big decision on disqualification of MLAs in Maharashtra...Speaker told Shinde faction to be the real Shiv Sena...Uddhav Thackeray's big defeat
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson, Sonia Gandhi, and leader in the Lok Sabha Shri Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Wednesday 'respectfully declined' Ram Temple invitation by calling it RSS-BJP event.
Today a surprising...disturbing news came in West Bengal... ED officers who came to raid the house of a Trinamool Congress leader in Bengal were attacked...the heads of the officers were broken... .They were chased and beaten...ED vehicles were broken.
Parliament Protest: Amidst the ongoing winter session, Opposition MPs staged a protest against the Central government in front of the Gandhi statue within the Parliament premises.
In a message to Telangana ahead of the upcoming Assembly election, Sonia Gandhi, expressed her connection to the people despite being unable to visit. She called on them to wield their influence for change.
Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday said it has provisionally attached properties worth Rs 751.9 crore in a money laundering case linked to the National Herald case. After ED's actions, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge stated that the actions show that BJP is panicking amid.
Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge, leader Sonia Gandhi, and Rahul Gandhi paid floral tribute to former Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi on the occasion of her death anniversary at Shakti Sthal in the national capital on October 31.
If the war between Israel and Hamas had not completely become an issue in Indian politics, then it has become so now… because now Sonia Gandhi has written a very detailed article about this war.
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Sonia Gandhi VS Smriti Irani: This morning Sonia Gandhi attacked the government in the women's reservation issue... tried to take credit...
Kahani Kursi Ki: Sonia Gandhi supports Women's Reservation Bill; Calls for immediate implementation
Hitting back at the Congress who has been claiming the credit for the Bill, Irani said, "When this bill was brought, some people said that it is "our bill"
Work begins in the new Parliament from today, women's reservation bill 'Nari Shakti Vandan' introduced in the Lok Sabha
Women's Reservation Bill was on Tuesday introduced in the Lok Sabha by Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal. Discussion for passing of the Bill in Rajya Sabha will be taken up on September 21.
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