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 mudslinger know where he stands! Right into the ditch. Today an Elephant tomorrow maybe his own friends and gang!!.
People at large are amused to such creatures, and Foxy like Media may try to participate in the bargain nay only to know which cost them dear.
Intelligent avoid such mistakes and brave move forward to All the wonderful works of the Govt.
Communist writing this paper.
Not worth a penny.
Very interesting!! The sad thing is that there is parity in discourse, and similarity in expression whether it comes from the ‘neech’ or ‘oonch’ stratas. It would be better if two opposing styles emerge – for a better future, and to have a more colourful historical record of the present days. A slightly tangential analogy, for example, of two very different approaches that were used for galvanising support during the freedom struggle: (1) Mahatma Gandhi’s thoughtful and calculated strategy versus (2) the impulsive and emotional approach adopted by the revolutionaries. Which one was more effective in winning the hearts and minds? This can be debated even after 70 years.