Sonia Gandhi

Sonia Gandhi

Sonia Gandhi (nee Antonia Albina Maino, Hedwig is December 9, 1946 the President of Indian National Congress, one of the main political parties in India. Born in Italy, is a widow of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. After his assassination in 1991, called the Indian Congress Party to take on Gandhi, the Congress, but he refused, and remained out of public policy at the center of constant stress from Congress. Eventually, he agreed to join politics in 1997 and 1998 was elected leader of the Congress.

Since that time, Gandhi was president of Indian National Congress Party. She served as president of the United Progressive Alliance to power in the Lok Sabha since 2004. In September 2010, re-elected for the fourth time, she became the longest current chairman of the history of 125 years Congress party.Her birth abroad has been the subject of much debate and controversy. Although Sonia is actually the fifth foreign-born person to be leader of the Congress Party, she was the first since independence in 1947.