# Sonia Gandhi

> Italian-born widow of an assassinated prime minister who reshaped Indian politics by refusing power twice - once after her husband's death in 1991, again after leading her party to victory in 2004 - while steering the Congress party and its coalition government from behind the scenes for over two decades.

*Indian politician*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/sonia-gandhi

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Country:** Italy
- **Born:** 1946-12-09
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Born in a village near Vicenza in 1946, she met Rajiv Gandhi during language classes in Cambridge, married him in 1968, and moved to New Delhi to live with her mother-in-law Indira Gandhi, then prime minister. She stayed out of public life even when her husband became prime minister, but his 1991 assassination changed the equation. She declined the party leadership then, finally joining politics in 1997 after persistent appeals, and took over as Congress president in 1998. Under her command the party built the United Progressive Alliance coalition that won in 2004; she turned down the prime ministership but ran the coalition and National Advisory Council, overseeing passage of the Right to Information Act, MGNREGA, and the Food Security Bill. She led Congress for twenty-two years until 2017, returned as interim president in 2019, and now sits in the Rajya Sabha - her foreign birth and the National Herald case trailing her, her influence over Indian politics undeniable.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 64.5 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.0 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 29.4 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 3.5 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 70.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 80.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #57

## Platforms
- **FACEBOOK**: https://www.facebook.com/SoniaRajivGandhi (@SoniaRajivGandhi)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1385114/ (@nm1385114)

## Topics
#Politicians, #Politician, #Politics, #Italy, #Europe, #20th Century

## Sources
- [Ганди, Соня](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%8F)
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- [Σόνια Γκάντι](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CF%8C%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%B1_%CE%93%CE%BA%CE%AC%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B9)
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- [סוניה גנדי](https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%92%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%99)

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