This enabled the Congress Party to form a coalition government (UPA). In the 2004 General Elections, she led the electoral campaign of her party which secured the largest number of seats. Gandhi was first elected as a Member of Parliament from the Amethi parliamentary constituency in 1999, following which she became Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha. She campaigned vigorously on behalf of the party and became the President of the Indian National Congress Party in April 1998. Shortly before the Lok Sabha elections in 1998, in response to widespread demands from Congress party rank and file, she entered public life. Sonia Gandhi took the primary membership of the party in 1997. As Chairperson of these, she kept herself occupied in their activities which commemorate her husband's legacy. At the same time, she looked after his parliamentary constituency, Amethi, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, concentrating on health-care camps and other welfare activities.Īfter the assassination of her husband in May 1991, she set up the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, a non- governmental organisation, and its associated think-tank, the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies. During the years 1984 to 1991 when her husband was Prime Minister and then briefly leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, she assumed a limited public role, mostly accompanying him on his tours in the country and abroad. Indira Gandhi, during many of her official duties and frequently acted as her hostess. She was a companion to her mother-in-law, Smt. Gandhi spent most of her married life largely as a private citizen looking after her family. She has a son, Shri Rahul Gandhi, a daughter, Smt. She met Shri Rajiv Gandhi in Cambridge where she was doing an English language course. After her early education, she attended a foreign language school where she studied English, French and Russian. She was also the Chairperson of the Coordinating Committee of the ruling coalition, the United Progressive Alliance. She is the longest serving President of the party, having been elected since 1998. Sonia Gandhi is the President of the Indian National Congress Party.
President of the Indian National Congress
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