Antonia Maino (Sonia Gandhi), born on 9 December 1946, is the wife of an Indian politician and former Prime Minister of the country, Rajiv Gandhi. Sonia was born in Louisiana, a small village located 20 km from the Vicenza region of Veneto, Italy. Her name before marriage was Antonia Maino. Her father, Stefano Maino, was a fascist soldier who died in 1983. Her mother is Paolo Maino.
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Sonia Gandhi has two sisters. Her childhood was spent in Orbasano, 8 km from Turin, Italy. In 1964, Sonia went to study the English language at the Bell Academic Fund's language school at Cambridge University, where she met Rajiv Gandhi, who was then studying at Trinity College Cambridge.
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They were married in 1968, after which she moved to India. She accepted Indian citizenship in 1983, long after marrying Rajiv Gandhi. They have two children - a son Rahul Gandhi and a daughter Priyanka Gandhi. Long after the assassination of her husband, she took charge of the Congress party and revived the party which is slowly breaking down in the country, the Congress won the 2004 and 2009 Lok Sabha elections under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi, In which Manmohan Singh was made the PM.
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