Media reports that the foreign “bahu” of the oldest political dynasty in India, this woman has been embroiled in controversy, grief, and power struggles ever since her marriage. Presently she is the mother of two, who themselves are involved politically, and is the President of the Indian National Congress.
Accordingly she is of Italian descent, but her ethnicity didn’t keep her from rising to power in the Congress six years after her husband Rajiv Gandhi’s death in 1991. Earlier in 2010, she was ranked the 9th most powerful woman in the world, the highest for any woman from India that year. Meanwhile under her leadership, the Congress achieved near-majority seats in the 2009 elections and she had Manmohan Singh elected as the prime minister, while she herself shunned the limelight.
Soniya's son and daughter, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra, are currently
involved in the heavy political cross-fire happening due to the 2014 elections,
and have seemingly inherited her strong statement making attitude. Moreover we
appreciate her from going from a part-time waitress in Cambridge, London, to
the incredibly influential spearhead of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty of India
today.
