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	Sonia Gandhi - Encyclopedia.com
		Sonia Gandhi, who became an Indian citizen in 1983, was close to her mother-in-law, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, accompanying her on many trips throughout India.
		Gandhi, born Sonia Maino in 1946 near Turin, Italy, married Rajiv Gandhi in 1968 and...
		Sonia Gandhi turns down post of Prime Minister; After days of indecision, the Congress Party leader yesterday stunned India with a refusal to take office.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-GandhiS.html (999 words)

	Manas: History and Politics, Sonia Gandhi
		Sonia Gandhi is the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament.
		Sonia Gandhi was seldom seen in public, and led a very "private life"; indeed, the 1984 assassination of her mother-in-law, Indira Gandhi, did comparatively little to make her more visible.
		Sonia Gandhi was strident in her criticism of the slow investigation of the inquiry around her husband’s assassination, and made no secret of her opinion that her husband’s opponents and other ill-wishers were determined to keep the truth from the public.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/History/Independent/Sonia.html (858 words)

	Sonia Gandhi Biography - Love at first sight, Rajiv reluctantly enters politics, A grieving widow
		Sonia's parents were reluctant to have her become involved in such a different culture, and Sonia herself was nervous about meeting Rajiv's famous mother, Indira Gandhi (1917–1984), who was considered to be the "first lady" of India.
		Sonia Gandhi was vehemently opposed to the idea, fearing that her husband might be injured or killed, given the explosive nature of Indian politics.
		Sonia Gandhi, resigned to the fact that her husband must lead his country, became his vigilant supporter and submerged herself in the role of a prime minister's wife.
	www.notablebiographies.com /news/Ca-Ge/Gandhi-Sonia.html (3292 words)

	Sonia Gandhi quits Indian parliament - Boston.com
		Sonia Gandhi, the leader of India's governing coalition, stepped down Thursday as a member of Parliament amid feuding with opposition parties over whether she violated a once-obscure election law by holding another government job.
		Sonia Gandhi, the head of governing coalition, steps down as a member of Parliament amid controversy over whether she also holds another job.
		The move by the Italian-born Gandhi, the widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, appeared aimed at defusing opposition claims that she is not qualified to sit in Parliament because she also chairs a number of government organizations.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2006/03/23/sonia_gandhi_steps_down_as_lawmaker (577 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| South Asia \| Profile: Sonia Gandhi
		Sonia Maino was born on 9 December 1946 in the town of Orbassano, near Turin, to a building contractor and his wife.
		Sonia was propelled into the forefront of the Indian political scene as Rajiv, whose brother Sanjay died in a plane crash in 1980, was picked as the successor to the Gandhi-Nehru crown.
		Sonia is a familiar figure in Amethi, her husband's rural parliamentary constituency in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh which her son Rahul now represents.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/3546851.stm (769 words)

	Meet India's Sonia Gandhi by The Globalist - The Globalist > > Global Politics
		The president of India's Congress party Sonia Gandhi, born Maino, is the daughter of an Italian builder and hails from a village outside Turin.
		Although Sonia Gandhi is mocked for her "spaghetti English," she speaks in Hindi — and wears the traditional sari or the salwar-kurta shirt and trousers.
		As of 2004, Sonia Gandhi's daughter Priyanka's father-in law and brother-in law are reported to be Hindu extremists from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh — or RSS — which gave birth to the Bharatiya Janata Party.
	www.theglobalist.com /DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=3937 (726 words)

	Sonia Gandhi - The Huffington Post
		Delhi, Sept. 1: Unapologetic in her defence of the nuclear deal as historic, Sonia Gandhi appeared to be preparing Congress workers for elections when she asked them to spread the word that no other government in recent years has increased social sector spending...
		Sonia Gandhi to launch second phase of housing project in Andhra
		Congress president Sonia Gandhi [Images] is likely to hold talks with leaders of Left parties next week after holding internal discussions within the party on ways and means to resolve the crisis over the Indo-US nuclear deal.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /topics/Sonia+Gandhi (1188 words)

	G21 NEWS - "Sonia Gandhi"
		Sonia Gandhi was also defamed as she is a born Italian and Italy was linked with the controversial BOFORS defense gun deal as the main accused, a middleman, in the deal Ottevvio Quottrochi, another Italian.
		Amethi is the traditional seat of Gandhi family and Sonia retained it by a huge and comfortable margin, but the Congress party suffered a major loss overall and reduced to being the main and largest opposition political group of India under her leadership.
		A complaint of Sonia Gandhi's opponents within her party is that she tends to be indecisive; many congressmen are of this view and say that her decisions lack transparency.
	www.g21.net /news29.html (1184 words)

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		Gandhi, 57, is the foreign-born widow of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi who was assassinated in 1991.
		Gandhi, clad in a maroon sari and who took her affirmation in Hindi to loud applause, was the cynosure of all eyes.
		Mrs Sonia Gandhi is expected to visit Punjab in the third week of December to pay tributes to the Sahibzadas at Chamkaur Sahib in Ropar district.
	www.lycos.com /info/sonia-gandhi.html (403 words)

	The Hindu : Front Page : I'll not backtrack, says Sonia Gandhi
		Gandhi said she had always shared her happiness and grief with the people of Rae Bareli and it was her responsibility to tell them the truth behind her resignation.
		Gandhi said there was an eerie silence in the Opposition camp after her resignation and all issues of morality had taken a backseat.
		Gandhi said she was being targeted by those who had never been able to rise above the politics of "vested interest." The NAC was not an office of profit but was just a body that advised the Government on implementation of the promises made under the National Common Minimum Programme.
	www.hindu.com /2006/03/29/stories/2006032907090100.htm (465 words)

	DesPardes.com \| People \| Sonia Gandhi
		Prasada kicked off his campaign to replace Sonia Gandhi at the memorial to her slain husband, Rajiv, in the small town in southern India where Mr.
		Gandhi was assassinated in 1991 as he campaigned for prime minister.
		Gandhi, his willingness to take her on and to thrash out the party's failings in public has come as yet another blow to her image.
	www.despardes.com /people/sonia.html (968 words)

	Sonia Gandhi
		Sonia Gandhi had spent a considerable part of her time in the work of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust.
		Sonia Gandhi supervised the sincere efforts of the Congress Party to provide relief to the victims during the 2001 Gujarat Earthquake.
		Sonia Gandhi was elected to the Lok Sabha in October, 1999 from Amethi Parliamentary Constituency in Uttar Pradesh with a record majority of more than three hundred thousand votses.
	www.rahulgandhi.net /sonia_gandhi.htm (272 words)

	INDOlink - India General News - Sonia Gandhi Inches Closer To Top Post, Elected CPP Leader
		Sonia Gandhi congratulated all her party colleagues for putting up a great fight against all odds and bringing the party back to power.
		Sonia Gandhi, the widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, is the latest torchbearer of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.
		Sonia Gandhi also said she was pleased that her Italian heritage - which could make her the first foreign-born Indian Prime Minister - had not harmed Congress in the polls.
	www.indolink.com /displayArticleS.php?id=051504124325 (1509 words)

	CNN - Indian lawmakers fear death threat against Sonia Gandhi - May 23, 1999
		The government said Sunday that intelligence agencies were aware of "the threat to Sonia Gandhi's person" several weeks ago, and that they alerted her and asked her to be careful when she appears in public.
		Gandhi, the Italian-born widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, has been criticized by opposition parties and some members of her own Congress party for trying to run for prime minister despite a lack of political experience.
		Mohandas Gandhi, popularly known as the Mahatma, or Great Soul, is not related to Sonia Gandhi or the Gandhi-Nehru family, the political dynasty into which she married.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/asiapcf/9905/23/india.gandhi/index.html (589 words)

	Sonia Gandhi casts shadow over India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Gandhi's status was on display earlier this month in Rae Bareli, the center of a grain-farming district that is her impoverished parliamentary constituency.
		Gandhi is a voice for the dispossessed, stoking a long-overdue discussion about the inequities that come with economic liberalization.
		Gandhi was born Sonia Maino in 1946 in Ovassanjo, near Turin, Italy.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06143/692451-82.stm (1716 words)

	Indian Politics, National Leadership, Sonia Gandhi, Congress, BJP
		And that Mrs Gandhi's experiences as a "Bahu" are even remotely similiar to the millions of Indian housewives who must both work for a living and cook and clean for their husbands and children.
		Mrs Sonia Gandhi may have learnt well the art of appealing to the nation's emotions, but she has surely not imbibed even an iota of the genuine pride her mother-in-law had for the nation of her birth.
		Mrs Sonia Gandhi's foreign birth may be forgiven, but her lack of identification with Indian causes, with things Indian - is what ought to be her biggest indictment.
	india_resource.tripod.com /Soniag.html (4982 words)

	CNN - Sonia Gandhi appointed head of India's Congress party - March 14, 1998
		Gandhi replaces veteran leader Sitaram Kesri who on Monday announced his resignation in light of the party's poor showing in the recent parliamentary elections.
		Party leaders said Gandhi had accepted the job as party head, but Kesri on Saturday countered his resignation statement from Monday and declared that he was still in charge and had not resigned.
		Though Gandhi did not run for parliament in the recent elections, she could be appointed to a seat in the upper house, thus fulfilling the requirement that the prime minister be a member of either the lower or upper house of parliament.
	edition.cnn.com /WORLD/9803/14/india.sonia.g (762 words)

	Sonia Gandhi blocks a depiction of her life - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune
		It was the second time in less than a decade that Gandhi and her political advisers had taken legal action to prevent a film being made of her life.
		It also highlighted the Gandhi family obsession with privacy, the political sensitivity of her Italian heritage and Gandhi's general desire to carefully stage-manage the family's public persona.
		The multiple tragedies that accompanied that transformation - the assassination of her mother-in-law, Indira Gandhi; the death of her brother-in-law in a stunt plane; the killing of her husband, Rajiv Gandhi, by a suicide bomber - provide compelling ingredients for a gripping screenplay.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/07/27/news/gandhi.php (1335 words)

	The Hindu : Front Page : President invites Sonia Gandhi
		Gandhi was inclined not to assume the prime ministerial mantle.
		Gandhi was reported to be in a mood to do a "1991" when she declined the offer to become the Congress president after the assassination of her husband, Rajiv Gandhi.
		Gandhi said: "According to the results of the 14th General Elections, the President noted that the Indian National Congress has emerged as the single largest party and that this party, in combination with its other pre-election allies, constituted the largest political formation in the House.
	www.hindu.com /2004/05/18/stories/2004051808770100.htm (655 words)

	Asia Times - Sonia Gandhi's mission (im)possible
		Most important, the Congress game plan, it is said, was to position Sonia, who is the leader of the opposition in parliament, as the opposition's prime-ministerial candidate and to establish that the other opposition parties accept her leadership.
		Sonia's confidence and performance as party president and leader of the opposition have undoubtedly improved over the years.
		Sonia, in contrast, is less popular than the party she heads.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/EH29Df02.html (1561 words)

	CNN - An enigmatic Sonia Gandhi transforms Indian politics - December 12, 1998
		NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born widow of assassinated Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, is rapidly becoming a political power in her own right.
		Under Sonia Gandhi's leadership, it made a stunning comeback in India's recent state elections, trouncing the ruling Hindu Nationalist Bharatiya Janata party.
		Rajiv Gandhi, his mother Indira Gandhi and grandfather Nehru were all Indian prime ministers.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/asiapcf/9812/12/india.sonia.gandhi/index.html (600 words)

	USATODAY.com - Sonia Gandhi steps down as lawmaker in India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		NEW DELHI (AP) — Sonia Gandhi, the leader of the governing coalition, stepped down Thursday as a member of Parliament amid inter-party feuding over a once-obscure election law and a growing controversy about whether she also held another job.
		The move by the Italian-born Gandhi, the widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, appeared to be aimed at defusing opposition demands that she was not qualified to sit in Parliament since she also chairs a number of organizations.
		Indira Gandhi was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister after independence from Britain in 1947 who remained in power until his death in 1964.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-03-23-gandhi_x.htm (393 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Sonia Gandhi returns Congress Party – and Gandhi – to power
		Now, more than a decade after he too was slain, Sonia Gandhi is poised to become the latest in a long line of Gandhis to govern this sprawling nation.
		Sonia Gandhi, a woman who had long tried to stay out of politics, was thrust to prominence with her husband's 1991 assassination.
		Indira Gandhi was killed by her own bodyguards in 1984, and Rajiv Gandhi, an airline pilot, reluctantly stepped up.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040513-1138-india-soniagandhi.html (818 words)

	American Thinker: Sonia Gandhi's Reluctant War on Terror
		Sonia Gandhi is one of India's most influential politicians, but her power and positions are little—known overseas.
		According to official records, Sonia Gandhi was born Antonia Maino in December 1946 to working class parents in Orbassano, Italy, an industrial suburb of Turin.
		Citing newly—opened KGB records, it reported that Sonia Gandhi, widow of the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, was controlling a secret account worth 2.5 billion Swiss francs (about 2 billion dollars at current exchange rates) in a Swiss bank in her minor son's name.
	www.americanthinker.com /articles.php?article_id=4836 (1279 words)

	Turna Ray on Sonia Gandhi on National Review Online
		Indira Gandhi was focused on prepping her eldest son Sanjay Gandhi to take her place as prime minister, leaving the younger Rajiv Gandhi to pursue a career as a pilot for Indian Airlines.
		Beyond titles of power and placards of honor, as a Gandhi, Sonia has a larger duty — to uphold, and if need be, to restore, the family's historic legacy in the hearts and minds of the Indian people.
		Meanwhile, Sonia, at the helm of the Congress party, is poised to steer India away from the BJP-incited religious fundamentalism and to restore the nation's founding ideals of secularism.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/ray200406240925.asp (1891 words)

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