Sonia Gandhi was unanimously elected for a fourth term as the Congress president on Friday. By doing so she will be setting several records in the history of the 125-year-old party, among them being the longest-serving incumbent.
Italian-born Sonia Gandhi (nee Maino), who has been the Congress president since 1998, is the seventh person of foreign origin to become the president of the Congress - a party formed to secure a greater share in governance for educated Indians.
Sixty-three-year-old Sonia Gandhi, who settled in India after marrying Nehru family scion Rajiv Gandhi in 1968, is the first person of foreign origin to become the Congress chief since Independence.
Image: A supporter drapes a sari over Congress president Sonia Gandhi as she files her nomination for the party president's post in New Delhi on Thursday, Sept 2, 2010.
Text: IANS
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