New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi broke silence on her role within the party a day ahead of Rahul Gandhi’s anointment as AICC President. Speaking to mediapersons, the veteran Congress leader said that her role is to retire now.
Rahul was declared elected as the new President of the Congress party on Dec. 11. The 47-year-old leader is officially set to take charge tomorrow (Dec.16).
Rahul Gandhi is the sixth member of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty to lead the Congress.
Sonia Gandhi held the post for 19 years and will deliver her farewell speech at an event tomorrow.
Born on Dec. 9, 1946, Sonia Gandhi took over as the party President in 1998, seven years after the assassination of her husband and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Born in a small village near Vicenza, Italy, Gandhi was raised in a Roman Catholic Christian family. She did her higher education from Cambridge and married Rajiv Gandhi in 1968.
She later took up Indian citizenship and began living with her mother-in-law, the then PM Indira Gandhi.
Of late, Sonia has faced some health issues. She was admitted to the Sri Gangaram Hospital in New Delhi earlier this year due to a bad stomach.
After her retirement from politics, Sonia can either stay away from all the party proceedings or might take up the role of a mentor.
This retirement has no meaning except she is not in the official capacity! All the party members and the media always behaved like the worker bees of a Beehive while she behaved like a big Queen bee. She might not have explicitly told any of her followers to loot this nation to the bare skeleton to make themselves and the party rich, but they all knew what would please her! Even until as late as this week, Manmohan Singh went up to the extent of demanding apology from Modi after having secret meeting with our enemy nation , the same MMS never opened his lips while the nation was looted in over 300 scams in a decade some major scams to the size of 2g, commonwealth games, coal etc! Nor even when our soldiers were routinely beheaded by Pakis! They same Pakistanis are now their friends in eliminating Modi! So, even if she goes to coma for a decade, the party members still continue to behave that she is a divine spirit leading them through the corrupt pathways for their own best and their future lies in Rahul becoming a PM and all opposition either marginalized or eliminated!
Think of it, if Modi met Pakistanis while Manmohan in power, they would have tortured and killed him for treason, but for the same crime they comitted, they are demanding aplology from Modi!
Mr. Raghu,
1) If 300 plus Scams were done, Even after 4 years what current government is doing ? why they are not working out on Jan lok pal ? Or to Establish fast tract courts to send them behind bars ?
How many arrest were done since 2014 ?
2) MMS met pakistan consulate with his capacity as EX PM to hold talk on regional issues this is a common practice by all parties he did not do it in secret, but where as our PM ran to pak without invitation to Wish pak PM. Is this acceptable by so called nationalist
3) Sonia, She never craved if so she would have become PM with no difficult. She lost her family members still she continued to fight against, some people call her outsider and anti national, Anti national is Advani who came from Pakistan and started riots in India really sorry state for him now Nor he became PM nor president nor at least a cabinet rank minister because of Mitron is power hungry.
She wanted Rahul the caterpillar to emerge as a beautiful butterfly in politics that everybody likes! Unfortunately he keeps growing as an ugly caterpillar with no symptom of changing! His supporters keep defending him for all his stupid mistakes and never let hi m mature