She is married to Delhi businessman Robert Vadra. On the 18th of February 1997, a customary Hindu ceremony was held at the Gandhi house, 10 Janpath. Their children are a son and a girl. She practices Vipassan as taught by S. N. Goenka and follows Buddhist philosophy.
On April 11, 2015, Priyanka Gandhi attended the wedding celebration dinner of Bollywood couple Naina Bachchan and Kunal Kapoor in New Delhi.
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To Rahul Gandhi, who is Priyanka Gandhi?
Gandhi announced his debut into politics in March 2004, stating that he will run for the Lok Sabha, India’s lower house of Parliament, in the May 2004 elections, representing his father’s former constituency of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh. His mother had occupied the seat until she was relocated to Raebareli, a nearby seat. The Congress was doing poorly in Uttar Pradesh at the time, with only 10 of the state’s 80 Lok Sabha seats held by the party. This choice surprised political experts at the time, as his sister, Priyanka Gandhi, was seen as the more charismatic and likely to succeed. It sparked conjecture that the presence of a young member of India’s most famous political dynasty will boost the Congress party’s political fortunes among the country’s youth. Gandhi portrayed himself as a national uniter in his first interview with international media, condemning “divisive” politics in India and promising to work to eliminate caste and religious conflicts. With a victory margin of over 100,000, Gandhi was able to keep the family stronghold. He had no other positions until 2006. Gandhi and his sister, Priyanka Gandhi, oversaw their mother’s re-election campaign to Raebareilly in 2006, which she won by over 400,000 votes. In the 2007 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, he was a key role in the Congress campaign; nonetheless, the party only won 22 of the 403 seats with 8.53 percent of the vote.
In a restructuring of the party secretariat on September 24, 2007, Gandhi was named General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee. He was also handed charge of the Indian Youth Congress and the National Students Union of India in the same reshuffle. When India’s Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, was still abroad in 2008, senior Congress politician Veerappa Moily floated the “Rahul-as-PM” concept. In January 2013, he was promoted to the role of vice-president of the party.
What is Priyanka Gandhi’s background? Sonia Gandhi, perhaps?
Sonia Gandhi is the widow of Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi’s oldest son. Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi are her two children.
She received successful cervical cancer surgery in the United States in August 2011 at Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Center in New York. After her treatment, she returned to India on September 9th. On the 18th of July 2012, she stated that it is up to Rahul to determine whether or not to play a larger role in the party.
The Guardian named Sonia Gandhi one of the fifty best-dressed over 50s in March 2013.
She looks to her mother-in-law Indira Gandhi’s “innate sense of fashion” and the style phrase “Simple is Stylish.”
Sonia disclosed assets totaling $1 billion in an affidavit submitted during the 2014 Indian general election.
What is the name of the person that owns 10 Janpath?
10, Janpath is a government-owned building on Janpath. Although he lived at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg when Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi’s official house at the time of his assassination in 1991, while campaigning for a second term as Prime Minister of India, was 10, Janpath. Sonia Gandhi, his widow and the current Interim President of the Indian National Congress, lives at 10, Janpath. On 24, Akbar Road, the Indian National Congress (INC) has its national headquarters. It was the home of Lal Bahadur Shastri (19641966), India’s second Prime Minister, and where his body was laid to rest on January 11, 1966. Lal Bhadur Shastri Memorial, his biographical museum, is located next to the complex at 1, Motilal Nehru Place (previously 10, Janpath).