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  1. Sonia Gandhi
    President of Indian National Congress
  2. Sonia Gandhi is an Italian-born Indian politician, who has served as President of the Indian National Congress party since 1998. She is the widow of former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi who belonged to the Nehru–Gandhi family.Wikipedia
  3. Born: December 9, 1946 (age 68),Lusiana, Italy
  4. Full name: Antonia Edvige Albina Maino
  5. Nationality: Indian
  6. Spouse: Rajiv Gandhi (m. 1968–1991)
  7. Education: Bell Educational Trust
  8. Children: Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi
  9. Sonia Gandhi

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    Sonia Gandhi
    Sonia Gandhi (cropped).jpg
    Chairperson of the National Advisory Council
    In office
    29 March 2010 – 25 May 2014
    Preceded byPosition reestablished
    In office
    4 June 2004 – 23 March 2006
    Preceded byPosition established
    Succeeded byPosition abolished
    Chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance
    Incumbent
    Assumed office
    16 May 2004
    Preceded byPosition established
    President of the Indian National Congress
    Incumbent
    Assumed office
    14 March 1998
    Preceded bySitaram Kesri
    Leader of the Opposition
    In office
    19 March 1998 – 22 May 2004
    Preceded bySharad Pawar
    Succeeded byL. K. Advani
    Member of Parliament
    for Rae Bareli
    Incumbent
    Assumed office
    17 May 2004
    Preceded bySatish Sharma
    Member of Parliament
    for Amethi
    In office
    10 October 1999 – 17 May 2004
    Preceded bySanjay Singh
    Succeeded byRahul Gandhi
    Personal details
    BornEdvige Antonia Albina Màino
    9 December 1946 (age 68)
    Lusiana, Veneto, Italy
    Political partyIndian National Congress
    Other political
    affiliations
    United Front (1996–2004)
    United Progressive Alliance(2004–present)
    Spouse(s)Rajiv Gandhi (1969–1991)
    ChildrenRahul
    Priyanka
    Residence10 Janpath, New Delhi
    Alma materBell Educational Trust
    ReligionRoman Catholicism[1][2][3]
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    WebsiteSonia Gandhi
    Sonia Gandhi (About this sound pronunciation (help·info); born Edvige Antonia Albina Màino,[4][5][6] 9 December 1946) is an Italian-born Indian politician, who has served as President of the Indian National Congress party since 1998.[5] She is the widow of former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi who belonged to theNehru–Gandhi family. After her husband's assassination in 1991, she was invited by Congress leaders to take over the government but she refused and publicly stayed away from politics amidst constant prodding from the party.[7]She finally agreed to join politics in 1997; in 1998, she was elected President of the Congress party.[5]
    She has served as the Chairperson of the ruling United Progressive Alliance in the Lok Sabha since 2004. In September 2010, on being re-elected for the fourth time, she became the longest serving president in the 125-year history of the Congress party.[8] Her foreign birth has been a subject of much debate and controversy.[9][10] Also controversial was her alleged friendship with Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, accused of being a middleman in the Bofors scandal.[11] Although Sonia is the fifth foreign-born person to be leader of the Congress Party, she is the first since independence in 1947.[12]

    Contents

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    • 1 Early life
    • 2 Political career
      • 2.1 Wife of the Prime Minister
      • 2.2 Congress President
      • 2.3 Leader of the Opposition
      • 2.4 2004 elections and aftermath
      • 2.5 UPA Chairperson
    • 3 Personal life
    • 4 Honours and recognition
    • 5 Books featuring Sonia Gandhi
    • 6 See also
    • 7 References
    • 8 Further reading
    • 9 External links

    Early life

    Sonia Gandhi's birthplace, 31, Contrada Maini (Maini street),Lusiana, Italy (the house on the right)
    She was born to Stefano and Paola Maino in Contrada Màini ("Maini quarter/district"), at Lusiana,[13][14] a little village 30 km from Vicenza in Veneto,[15] Italy, where families with the family name "Màino" have been living for many generations.[16][17][18] She spent her adolescence in Orbassano,[19] a town near Turin, being raised in a traditional Roman Catholic family and attending a Catholic school. Her father, Stefano Maino, was a building mason, who owned a small construction business in Orbassano.[20] Stefano fought against theSoviet military alongside Hitler's Wehrmacht on theeastern front in World War II, he called himself a loyal supporter of Benito Mussolini and Italy's National Fascist Party.[20] He died in 1983.[21] Her mother and two sisters still live around Orbassano.[22]
    In 1964, she went to study English at the Bell Educational Trust's language school in the city of Cambridge.[23] In 1965 at a Greek restaurant (the Varsity Restaurant in Cambridge) she met Rajiv Gandhi, who was enrolled in Trinity College at the University of Cambridge.[24] Sonia and Rajiv Gandhi married in 1968, in a Hindu ceremony[25] following which she moved into the house of her mother-in-law and then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi.[26]
    The couple had two children, Rahul Gandhi (born 1970) and Priyanka Vadra(born 1972). Despite belonging to the influential Nehru family, Sonia and Rajiv avoided all involvement in politics. Rajiv worked as an airline pilot while Sonia took care of her family.[27] When Indira Gandhi was ousted from office in 1977 in the aftermath of the Indian Emergency, the Rajiv family contemplated to move abroad for a short time.[28] When Rajiv entered politics in 1982 after the death of his younger brother Sanjay Gandhi in a plane crash on 23 June 1980, Sonia continued to focus on her family and avoided all contact with the public.[29]

    Political career

    Wife of the Prime Minister

    Sonia Gandhi's involvement with Indian public life began after the assassination of her mother-in-law and her husband's election as Prime Minister. As the Prime Minister's wife she acted as his official hostess and also accompanied him on a number of state visits.[30] In 1984, she actively campaigned against her husband's sister-in-law Maneka Gandhi who was running against Rajiv in Amethi. At the end of Rajiv Gandhi's five years in office, the Bofors scandal broke out. Ottavio Quattrocchi, an Italian business man believed to be involved, was said to be a friend of Sonia Gandhi, having access to the Prime Minister's official residence.[31] The BJP has alleged that she appeared on the voters list in New Delhi prior to obtaining Indian citizenship in April 1983, in contravention of Indian law.[32][33]
    Former senior Congress leader and the currently the President of India Pranab Mukherjee said that she surrendered her Italian passport to the Italian Embassy on 27 April 1983. Italian nationality law did not permit dual nationality until 1992. So, by acquiring Indian citizenship in 1983, she would automatically have lost Italian citizenship.[34]

    Congress President

    With the then President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev during his State visit in December 2010.
    After the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi and her refusal to become Prime Minister, the party settled on the choice of P. V. Narasimha Rao who became leader and subsequently Prime Minister. Over the next few years, however, the Congress fortunes continued to dwindle and it lost the 1996 elections. Several senior leaders such as Madhavrao Sindhia, Rajesh Pilot, Narayan Dutt Tiwari,Arjun Singh, Mamata Banerjee, G. K. Moopanar, P. Chidambaram andJayanthi Natarajan were in open revolt against incumbent President Sitaram Kesri and many of whom quit the party, splitting the Congress into many factions.[35]
    In an effort to revive the party's sagging fortunes, she joined the Congress Party as a primary member in the Calcutta Plenary Session in 1997 and became party leader in 1998.[5][36]
    In May 1999, three senior leaders of the party (Sharad Pawar, P. A. Sangma, and Tariq Anwar) challenged her right to try to become India's Prime Minister because of her foreign origins. In response, she offered to resign as party leader, resulting in an outpouring of support and the expulsion from the party of the three rebels who went on to form theNationalist Congress Party.[37]
    Within 62 days of joining as a primary member, she was offered the party President post which she accepted.[38] She contested Lok Sabha elections from Bellary, Karnataka and Amethi, Uttar Pradesh in 1999. She won both seats but chose to represent Amethi.[39] In Bellary, she had defeated veteran BJP leader, Sushma Swaraj.[40]

    Leader of the Opposition

    Sonia Gandhi welcomes US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to her residence, 10 Janpath in New Delhi, India, 2009.
    She was elected the Leader of the Opposition of the 13th Lok Sabha in 1999.[41] When the BJP-led NDA formed a government under Atal Bihari Vajpayee, she took the office of the Leader of Opposition. As Leader of Opposition, she called a no-confidence motion against the NDA government led by Vajpayee in 2003.[42]

    2004 elections and aftermath

    In the 2004 general elections, Gandhi launched a nationwide campaign, criss-crossing the country on the Aam Aadmi (ordinary man) slogan in contrast to the 'India Shining' slogan of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) alliance. She countered the BJP asking "Who is India Shining for?". In the election, she was re-elected by a 200,000-vote margin over nearest rival, in theRae Bareli.[43] Following the unexpected defeat of the NDA, she was widely expected to be the next Prime Minister of India. On 16 May, she was unanimously chosen to lead a 15-party coalition government with the support of the left, which was subsequently named the United Progressive Alliance (UPA).
    The defeated NDA protested once again her 'foreign origin' and senior NDA leader Sushma Swaraj threatened to shave her head and "sleep on the ground", among other things, should Sonia become prime minister.[9] The NDA also claimed that there were legal reasons that barred her from the Prime Minister's post.[44] They pointed, in particular, to Section 5 of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1955, which they claimed implied 'reciprocity'. This was contested by others[33] and eventually the suits were dismissed by the Supreme Court of India.[45]
    A few days after the election, Gandhi recommended Manmohan Singh as her choice as prime minister, that the party leaders accepted. Her supporters compared it to the old Indian tradition of renunciation,[46] while her opponents attacked it as a political stunt.[47]

    UPA Chairperson

    Sonia Gandhi speaking at World Economic Forum's India Economic Summit 2006
    On 23 March 2006, Gandhi announced her resignation from the Lok Sabha and also as chairperson of the National Advisory Council under the office-of-profit controversy and the speculation that the government was planning to bring an ordinance to exempt the post of chairperson of National Advisory Council from the purview of office of profit.[48] She was re-elected from her constituency Rae Bareli in May 2006 by a margin of over 400,000 votes.[49][50]
    As chairperson of the National Advisory Committee and the UPA, she played an important role in making the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and theRight to Information Act into law.[51][52]
    She addressed the United Nations on 2 October 2007, Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary which is observed as the international day of non-violence after a UN resolution passed on 15 July 2007.[53]
    Under her leadership, the Congress-led UPA won a decisive majority in the 2009 general elections with Manmohan Singh as the Prime Minister.[54] The Congress itself won 206 Lok Sabha seats, which was then the highest total by any party since 1991.[55] She was also re-elected to a third term as a member of parliament representing Rae Bareli.[56]
    In 2013, Gandhi became the first person to serve as Congress President for 15 years consecutively.[57] In the same year, Gandhi condemned the Supreme Court's judgement supporting Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and backed LGBT rights.[58]
    In the 2014 general election, she held her seat in Rae Bareli.[59] However the Indian National Congress and the Congress-led UPA electoral alliance suffered their worst result in a general election ever, winning only 44 and 59 seats respectively.[60][61][62]

    Personal life

    Sonia Gandhi in 2009
    Sonia is the widow of Rajiv Gandhi, elder son of Indira Gandhi. Sonia has two children, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi.
    In August 2011, she underwent a successful surgery for an unspecified ailment in the United States. It has been widely speculated in the media that the surgery took place at Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Newspapers reported that she returned[63] to India on 9 September after her treatment. Speaking on 18 July 2012, about her son taking a larger role in the party, she said that it is for Rahul to decide.[64]
    Sonia was listed as one of the fifty best-dressed over 50s by the Guardian in March 2013.[65]She follows the style quote " Simple is Stylish" and looks no further than mother-in-law Indira Gandhi's "innate sense of fashion".[66]
    According to an affidavit filed during the Indian general election, 2014, Sonia had declared assets worth INR 92.8 million – INR28.1 million in movable and INR 64.7 million in immovable properties. This is an almost six-fold increase since her declaration in the last election.[67]

    Honours and recognition

    In 2004, Gandhi was named the third most powerful woman in the world by Forbes Magazine[68] and was ranked 6th in 2007.[69] In 2010, Gandhi ranked as the ninth most powerful person on the planet by Forbes Magazine.[70] She was also named among the Time 100 most influential people in the world for the years 2007[71] and 2008.[72] New Statesman listed Sonia Gandhi at number 29 in their annual survey of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures" in the year 2010.[73]
    YearNameAwarding organisationRef.
    2008Honorary Doctorate (Literature)University of Madras[74]
    2006Order of King LeopoldGovernment of Belgium[75]
    2006Honorary DoctorateBrussels University[75]

    Books featuring Sonia Gandhi

    • Sonia Gandhi – An Extraordinary Life, An Indian Destiny (2011), a biography written by Rani Singh.
    • Sonia Gandhi: Tryst with India by Nurul Islam Sarkar.
    • Sonia: A Biography by Rasheed Kidwai[76]
    • The Accidental Prime Minister by Sanjaya Baru, 2014

    See also

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    • List of political families
    • List of Italians

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    Further reading

    • S. R. ET AL. BAKSHI (1998) Sonia Gandhi, The President of AICC South Asia Books. ISBN 81-7024-988-0
    • Rupa Chaterjee (1999) Sonia Gandhi: The Lady in Shadow Butala. ISBN 81-87277-02-5
    • C. Rupa, Rupa Chaterjee (2000) Sonia Mystique South Asia Books. ISBN 81-85870-24-1
    • Moro, Javier "El sari rojo" (Ed. Seix Barral, 2008) "Il sari rosso" (Il Saggiatore, 2009)

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