Sonia Gandhi ( Maino ; born 9 December 1946 ) is an Indian politician . She is a former president of the Indian National Congress , the secular and left-of-centre political party , which governed India for most of its post-independence history . She took over as the party leader in 1998 , seven years after the assassination of her husband , Rajiv Gandhi , a former prime minister of India , and remained in office for nineteen years
assassination of her husband , Rajiv Gandhi
Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi
Sonia Gandhi