Today, Sonia Gandhi became the first female President of the Congress in 1998.
Sonia Gandhi aka Antonia Maino is an Indian politician who was born on December 9, 1946. She is the president of the Indian National Congress, a large political party that has ruled India for the majority of its post-independence history. She became the party's head in 1998, seven years after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, her husband and a former Prime Minister of India, and served for twenty-two years. She was re-elected in 2019 after her son, Rahul Gandhi, resigned.
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