In the 2004 general elections, Sonia Gandhi launched a nationwide campaign on the Aam Aadmi (ordinary man) slogan challenging the ‘India Shining’ slogan of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance. She won the election by a large margin in the Rae Bareilly constituency in Uttar Pradesh.
On 16 May 2004, she was unanimously chosen the leader of the United Progressive Alliance, a 15-party coalition government with the support of the left.
In March 2006, Sonia resigned from the Lok Sabha and also as chairperson of the National Advisory Council under the office-of-profit controversy. She was re-elected from her constituency Rae Bareilly in May 2006 by a huge margin of over 400,000 votes.
As chairperson of the National Advisory Committee and the UPA chairperson, she played an important role in making the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and the Right to Information Act into law.
She addressed the United Nations on 2 October 2007on the occasion of international day of non-violence coinciding the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
Under her leadership, the Congress-led-UPA returned to a near majority in the 2009 general elections with Manmohan Singh as the Prime Minister.
The congress party’s unique achievements and promotions in the uplift of the millions of downtrodden Indians and in nurturing the nation to become an economically powerful country in south-east Asia are attributable to the able and determined leadership of incumbent president Sonia Gandhi.
In June 2011, before her departing for her surgery, Sonia Gandhi gave an ethical statement in context of Anna Hazare’s campaign: The senior Congress leader said though many in the party ranks “don’t like Hazare, but she (Sonia Gandhi) has maintained courtesy in the past and will do so now”.
She has always been a good influencer and personally to whom we can eye on.
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