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.
True. Unless this photograph is properly explained it cannot simply be washed away. Can we say with conviction that this is NOT their wedding registration? We see so many marriages taking place in both customs. Ultimately where and how it is registered is what matters. You media people should be able to trace the priest in the photo to corroborate the story – if you want to.
Since the elections are approaching fast , the anti – national elements indulge in all sorts of disinformation and innuendoes to tarnish the image of the Congress party. When there is fire in the belly of the peoples , such false propaganda have no effect on the poor and hungry . They will only backfire on the BJP .
In today’s bizarre politics of vote pursuit, nothing is left out. Today’s Congress may even say feroz Gandhi or feroz khan, husband of Indira priyadarshini, daughter of Nehru, is a brahmin and even Mohandas karamchand Gandhi a brahmin. Don’t take these things seriously. Everything goes in Indian politics today. Just laugh off
This controversy will continue until you clarify regarding the image with the Christian priest….Did they undergo through the ritualsa Christian marriage too? This question still haunts many.