March 14, 1998 (February 16) Tiger years, Sonia was elected as the President of the Indian National Congress. Sonia and her late husband pull Gandhi


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1998 March 14, 2010, (Lssdjt.com) India's Congress Party, the highest decision-making body - the Congress Party Working Committee formally elected former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's widow Sonia. Gandhi as the Congress Party's new Chairman, approved by the party congress on April 6.
Sonia was born on December 9, 1946 in a merchant family in northern Italy, the town of Ovalle Obasanjo. The early 1960s, when she was studying in Cambridge, met with in school studying Rajiv Gandhi became husband and wife in 1968. Married Sonia reclusive, rarely in the political occasions spotlight. May 1991, after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, the Congress party internal unanimously called Sonia Chairman of the Party, but do not want to get involved in politics, she refused. In May 1997, Sonia request of the factions within the party formally joined the Congress Party. The end of the same year, she announced on behalf of the Congress Party's election campaign. Some critics say that the status of the second largest party, the Congress won the election, Sonia contributed.