The tale of two powerful
women, both belongs to a powerful political family. One is outgoing and
over ambitious, other preferred the backstage. Both are wife of the
former head of state of their respective countries. Being in limelight, they
maintain a good equation of hate and
love ratio with the masses. Often it is higher side and sometime is below par. It
is all about Sonia Gandhi and Hillary Clinton, lots of common going
between them but they are totally two different individuals with different
attitude towards the life.
Sonia Gandhi
Sonia Gandhi, was known as Antonia Edvige Albina
Maino. She was born on 9 December 1946, in Contrada Maini, at Lusiana, a little village 30 km from Vicenza in Veneto , Italy India
She met Rajiv
Gandhi, who was enrolled in Trinity College at the University of Cambridge Delhi
After Rajiv
Gandhi's assassination in 1991, she was invited by the Indian National
Congress to take over the Congress but refused and publicly stayed away from
politics amidst constant prodding by the Congress. She finally agreed to join
politics in 1997; in 1998, she was elected as the leader of the Congress.
She has served as
the Chairperson of the ruling United Progressive Alliance in the Lok
Sabha since 2004. In September 2010, on being re-elected for the fourth
time, she became the longest serving president in the 125-year history
of the Congress party. Her foreign birth has been a subject of much debate and
controversy. Although Sonia is actually the fifth foreign-born person to be
leader of the Congress Party, she is the first since independence in 1947.
In the 2004 general
elections, Gandhi launched a nationwide campaign, thru the country. In the
election, she won by a large margin in the Rae Bareilly constituency.
Following the unexpected defeat of the NDA, she was widely expected to be the
next Prime Minister of India. On 16 May, she was unanimously chosen to lead a
15-party coalition government with the support of the left, which was
subsequently named the United Progressive Alliance(UPA).
The defeated NDA
protested once against her 'foreign origin' and senior NDA leader Sushma
Swaraj threatened to shave her head and "sleep on the ground",
among other things, should Sonia become prime minister. The NDA also claimed
that there were legal reasons that barred her from the Prime Minister's post.
They pointed, in particular, to Section 5 of the Indian Citizenship Act of
1955, which they claimed implied 'reciprocity'. This was contested by others
and eventually the suits were dismissed by the Supreme Court of India.
A few days after the election, Gandhi appointed Manmohan Singh as prime
minister.
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane
Rodham Clinton, born October 26, 1947, that make her a
year younger than Sonia Gandhi. A native of Illinois ,
she embarked on a career in law after graduating from Yale Law School Arkansas
In 1978 Bill Clinton elected as Governor of
Arkansas, Hillary became First Lady of Arkansas in January 1979. On February 27, 1980, Rodham gave birth to a
daughter, Chelsea, her only child. In 1993, Bill Clinton took office as president
of USA , Hillary Rodham
Clinton became the First Lady of the United States
She was sworn in as
United States Senator from New York
Hillary was elected
as a U.S. Senator in 2000. That election
marked the first time an American First Lady had run for public office; Clinton
Obama went on to
win the election and appoint Clinton as
Secretary of State; Clinton
!!!Both are incredible, in politics its
needs a special ability to stay on top!!!
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