Sonia Gandhi is the longest-serving president of the Congress party, which has governed India during most of its post-Independence decades. She was born in Italy, and educated at Cambridge University, where she met Rajiv Gandhi, who was then the son of prime minister Indira Gandhi. The two married in 1968.
After Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination in 1991, during campaigning for that year’s general elections, Sonia Gandhi initially stayed away from politics, but in 1998, she was chosen as the president of the Congress party. Under her leadership, in 2004, a Congress-led coalition came to power at the Centre. She famously declined to be prime minister — her foreign birth had become a politically controversial issue — and instead chose the economist Manmohan Singh. She was then named the chairperson of the coalition, which was called the United Progressive Alliance or the UPA.
Sonia Gandhi won her first Lok Sabha election in 1999, representing Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, a family stronghold. From 2004, she has represented Rae Bareli as an MP in the Lok Sabha. In 2024, she announced she was contesting elections from the Rajya Sabha, the indirectly elected house of Parliament, signalling her stepping back from electoral politics.
A very obvious fact shown by the bank Balances. Kamraj Nader, we are told, had Rs,,10 in his shirt pocket at his death. That is called Nationalism. Not danda,jhanda and khaki pants,
The rally was less about criticising the ruling BJP and more about positioning himself. Hooda said he would introduce a legislation similar to that in Andhra Pradesh – to reserve 75 per cent jobs for locals in the private sector. He also promised a fixed monthly income of Rs 2,000 for ‘poor women’ and free electricity of up to 300 units for below-poverty line families. To manage the caste equation, he announced the possibility of four deputy chief ministers, if voted to power – one each from the Dalit, Brahmin, and backward class communities, and one from the rest.
There may be more reasons than meet the eye for Hooda’s present stand. But, what is irrefutably true is that Congress, which plunged the depths in 2014, and repeated the fall in 2019, is set to sink even further.
Mr. Hooda is better placed than any other opposition leader to capture the political landscape which has been vacated due to split in INALO. Haryana s politics had been revolving around personalities of Bansi Lal ,Bhajan Lal Devilal clan. with Devi Lal s son Chautala in Jail and split in the party . Bhajan lal s sons on being always on political journeys from one party to another, Bansi lal s clans inheritors being only one factional leader of Sinking and dying Congress, it is but natural for Hooda to look for new moorings. If he splits the congress and forms new party ” a Bronze Medal ” will be assured.