Sonia Gandhi Quotes
I am aware that I have caused you pain and anguish, but I think you will allow me to take my decision.
After leading the Congress Party to a stunning upset victory in the National elections of 2004, she was expected to become the Prime Minister as party leaders usually do. However, she remained as Party Leader but declined to serve as Prime Minister. Her husband and mother-in-law had both been assassinated while they were Prime Ministers, and she, being born in Italy, particularly irked the most conservative, nationalist element who had been responsible for the two previous assassinations.
Sonia Gandhi, Congress Party Leader, Speech to Congress Party Leaders, May 2004, Widow of Sanjay Gandhi, Daughter in Law of Indira Gandhi
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Sonia Gandhi (pronunciation (help·info)) is an Indian politician. She is the president of the Indian National Congress, the left-of-centre political party, which has governed India for most of its post-independence history. She took over as the party leader in 1998, seven years after the assassination of her husband, Rajiv Gandhi, a former Prime Minister of India, and remained in office for twenty-two years.