Sonia Gandhi Biography

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Name                     :               Sonia Gandhi

Original name        :               Sonia Maino

Profession             :                Politician

Date of Birth         :                Dec. 9, 1946

Birth Place            :                Ovassanjo, 80 km away from Turin,                                   Italy

Mother tongue      :                          Italian

Family                     :                                   Father:Stefano Eugene Maino

mother: Paola Maino

husband: Rajeev Gandhi

Son: Rahul Gandhi

Daughter: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra

Famous in-laws    :                                 Mother-in-Law: Indra Gandhi

Father-in-law: Feroze Gandhi

Brother-in-law: Sanjay Gandhi

Sister-in-law: Maneka Gandhi

Grandfather-in-law: Jawaharlal Nehru

Nephew: Varun Gandhi

Son-in-law: Robert Vadra

Education  :                                     * Early education in a  Roman Catholic school run by the Salesian Order.

* She attended an interpreter's school where she studied English, French and Russian. 

* A two-year certificate course in English language at Cambridge, UK.

* She has a diploma in conservation of oil paintings from the National Museum in New Delhi.

Citizen      :    Renounced Italian citizenship on 27 April 1983 and became a citizen of India on 30 April 1983.

Her first visit to Delhi:           When I first came to Delhi in 1968, my father had given me a return ticket. But Delhi was                                                            the place of my second birth and the ticket, like my past, was lost in the mists of time."

About her  :           I've seen her fight the day my grandmother died. I've seen her fight the day my father died. And she has won. My mother is my hero."- Rahul Gandhi